Re: Additional Use Case for VCTF

+1

Eric
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
wrote:

> On 3/21/16 11:46 AM, Shane McCarron wrote:
>
>> Information in
>>     the page indicates where on the vendor's site to find their claim
>>     about security, and the extension can retrieve the claim and
>>     verify it. [snip]...
>>   You can imagine many similar scenarios for
>> other verticals (verify physician credentials, check whether a school
>> is accredited, etc.)
>>
>
> +1
> Agreed, would be a great improvement in the current UI.  I know I've
> wanted it recently. Millions of people probably wish for something like
> this every day. :-)
>
> One thought: IMO it could lead to complex privacy questions --
>
> Example: on a Health Site, a doctor is writing the site supposedly. The
> user checks this, and the credential exists, but...what kind of doctor?
> Educated where and when and with what specialty?
>
> The doctor's verifiable credentials could then include year graduated,
> what university, what specialty -- but the doctor may not want all that
> available on the site. Meanwhile the site user may feel they need to know
> certain levels of the information in order to trust the site. (Do I trust
> what a Neurosurgeon says about nutrition? Or what a GP says about
> neurosurgery?)
>
> I believe this granularity is already under the scope of the Credentials
> Goals in the Editor's Draft, as "Composability of verifiable claims to
> express an aspect of one's identity in a granular way."
>
> So the use-case overall looks like it's well worth doing...and perhaps
> would be complicated in some scenarios, requiring a back-and-forth with the
> site viewer.
>
> Steven Rowat
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