Re: [MINUTES] W3C Credentials CG Call - 2017-06-13 12pm ET

Does this bring about a series of modality considerations?

On Wed., 14 Jun. 2017, 6:15 am David Chadwick, <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
wrote:

> The point I was making is that today, employees with security clearances
> have access to documents that should not be revealed to the press or
> foreign nationals, and the vast majority of employees comply.
> Occasionally one employee might release information to Wikileaks or
> similar and there is nothing that technology can do to stop this. So we
> could adopt the same model for VCs. Employees are given VCs and told
> they should not release them to inspectors outside the organisation (and
> the VC could contain a policy statement to this effect), but once they
> are home, the employee could release them if they wanted to.
>
> This is because the trust model of VCs is fundamentally different to
> that of federated identity management systems - see my doc on VC
> lifecycles for the trust model
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2qPJBxhjfdqYmJGaE5HODFLZ3ROUFAxQ05yOG9uRTBaaDlr/view
>
>
> regards
>
> David
>
> On 13/06/2017 19:15, msporny@digitalbazaar.com wrote:
> > David Chadwick:  Concept of high security credentials that should
> >   not be released to anyone outside the org. Nothing in the
> >   technology would stop stepping outside restrictions of employer
> >   (kimhd: not sure I captured this statement correctly)
>
>

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