Re: New hosted extension for DIF Identity Hub

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:33 AM Daniel Buchner <
Daniel.Buchner@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Not sure what you mean by Closed Data. The Hubs are only ‘close data’ in
> the sense that the user controls what is exposed and can encrypt some of
> their semantic data objects/messages so that only they and those they allow
> can decrypt it.
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Yes, that is what I meant.  Private data is also called closed data, in
contrast to open data.


> I am very familiar with Actions (and the sub classes), and we have been
> planning to use them as the model for the Messages endpoint/mechanism of
> the datastore. The issue we face is that we are running into a need for an
> extended set of Action sub classes that have more specific properties that
> are attuned for the various identity interactions. For example:
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> We currently tried to specify a message that asks for the user to provide
> an attestation proving something via the CheckAction, but we’d really like
> some further properties that provide more specifics and expressiveness
> about the actual action intent, which is more like a
> ProvideAttestationAction. Such an action would include a claims field,
> Decentralized Identifier references, and other DID/attestation specific
> metadata. We already have a few related to attestations that are causing us
> to really bend the intent of the existing Action subclasses, and I don’t
> want to misuse them.
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> Does this make sense?
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Yeah, you don't want something generic sounding...but you want properties
that are more to the point for your usage and needs.  In that case...I
would just extend schema.org , and we already have several hosted
extensions and GS1 as our only known external extension
http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html

-Thad

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