Re: Outcome of Credentials presentation at Web Payments IG / W3C TPAC

+1 to all! :)

p.


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 27 October 2015 at 16:13, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Overall, there is some good news wrt. Credentials from W3C TPAC.
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>> The Credentials presentation was allotted 45 minutes during the Web
>> Payments Interest Group face-to-face meeting at the W3C Technical
>> Plenary (W3C TPAC) this week.
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>> The tenor of the conversation this time around was much more positive
>> (with a number of people expressing reservations, but not objecting to
>> an attempt to formulate a properly scoped Working Group charter). The
>> group motioned to extend the time to discuss credentials to double the
>> time allotted (for the 8+ presentations, we were unique in generating
>> such a massive amount of discussion - mostly positive).
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>> The bottom line is that the Web Payments Interest Group thinks that
>> Credentials are a high priority and that we should start gathering
>> supporting material together to write a draft working group charter.
>> Some of this supporting material that we're missing is an explanation
>> around why OpenID Connect, SAML, and a variety of the other technologies
>> don't work for our use cases. In other words, we have to justify what
>> makes this work different from everything else that has come before it.
>>
>> The W3C staff were largely supportive of the initiative now, as were
>> many of the Web Payments IG members. The group has asked me to champion
>> the creation of a plan to start a Credentials WG and propose it to the
>> Web Payments Interest Group for approval in the next couple of weeks.
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>> Note that this is a better outcome than we had hoped for, so when we get
>> back from W3C TPAC, it'll be time for the Credentials CG to hunker down
>> and work on getting a plan to form a Credentials WG formulated quickly.
>>
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> Congrats!
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> In a nutshell, OpenID Connect and SAML dont fully support HTTP identifiers
> and the most recent W3C web standards.  They have been useful in many
> scenarios, but the web needs something more.
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>> -- manu
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>> --
>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch
>> http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
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