Re: Payments activity - any point to our time and effort?

> On 4 Mar 2016, at 19:55, Shane McCarron <shane@spec-ops.io> wrote:
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> Credentials / Verifiable Claims don't really need an user agent support at all.  Define a protocol, message format, and some rules and you are off to the races.  But if you want it on every desktop and in every phone... well, you should find a way to engage the people who make desktops and phones.

Ok, but with WebCrypto API you can already store and do crypto on any device and store keys locally.
You can use Http Signatures to store credentials locally, or potentially on your personal SoLiD server,
(SoLiD=LDP+WebAccessControl+...) so that you can allow apps from different origins to share those credentials.

It does not give you the full security of browser you would get with certificate management, but well if enough
people use it and governments start finding it useful, they can start passing laws to get the browser
vendors to integrate it.

Henry


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> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net <mailto:henry.story@bblfish.net>> wrote:
> How much does one actually need the browser vendors for this?
> Can one not get a lot of this working with JS, sending credentials signed by some entity?
> At least to start off with?
> 
> Henry
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>> On 4 Mar 2016, at 14:30, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com <mailto:timothy.holborn@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I've been reading this: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-payments-wg/2016Feb/0527.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-payments-wg/2016Feb/0527.html>
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>> Is our work valuable at all or is this some sick joke that looks like Wall Street Execs vs. the concept of law and such things for the billions of other humans around the planet...?
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>> After reading this, I have severe concerns about the viability of building anything meaningful here.  
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>> I think that should be made clear.  W3C was established due to issues that emerged sometime ago.  New issues threaten humanity as is influenced specifically by web standards.  Their are a number of very troubling problems here, and I fully support Manu, who's work has brought all this together and to suggest otherwise is an act of horrific behaviour I very much doubt they'd want subject to accountability, as such,
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>> What are we doing here?
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>> Timh.
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