- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:10:54 -0500
- To: public-credentials@w3.org, Web Payments IG <public-webpayments-ig@w3.org>
On 03/10/2016 06:11 PM, Steven Rowat wrote: > " • Enhancing website usability by removing the need to manually enter > verifiable claims. > " • Reducing online fraud, such as identity theft, by establishing a > standard way to cryptographically verify 3rd party claims. > " • Reduced operating costs for verifiable claim issuers and > inspectors as a result of a common set of technology for expressing and > verifying claims. > " • Enhancing some aspects privacy and unlinkability for the subject > of a verifiable claim." > > Again, these are agnostic about who uses them. But if they're to be > developed by a body -- like the W3C -- which gets its funding largely > from institutions and companies, there is potential for them to be > developed in such a way that they are achieved but the 'ultimate' goal > is the maintenance of the status quo. > > So again, if they are to be treated as "ultimate" goals, and to reflect > what those in the Community Group who developed them is interested in, I > suggest adding: > > "The Credentials standard will, to the extent currently technically > feasible, level the playing field for Credentials so that small actors > or individuals can make use of the emerging Credentials technology on > the same basis as larger corporations, government, or institutions, > without undue or unnecessary barriers." Done (with minor modifications to the language). https://github.com/w3c/webpayments-ig/commit/88351072555b22f7179002771e311d24b657828c -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/
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