- From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:59:22 -0700
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
> The bad thing about voting is that sometimes the outcome of the votes > are a bit wonky. > > In this case, the group decided on Entity Credential and Identity Profile. > >>From an editorial (and marketing) standpoint, these choices are strange. > > We should have picked either: Not meant as a criticism, but merely wanting to exploit a possible teachable moment: This is why survey methodology is so difficult. Small differences in wording or form can produce vastly different results. So too, here: presenting each of the two choices independetly, at different times and possibly without any clear linkage to other choices, means that the people who do the voting will tend to focus only on the narrow choices of the moment and, worse, tend to apply ephemeral criteria. So, I suspect that presenting the choices as: 1. Entity Credential and Entity Profile 2. Identity Credential and Identity Profile 3. Entity Credential and Identity Profile 4. Entity Credential and Identity Profile would have produced a different outcome, on the theory that people would have seen the benefit of consistency. d/ ps. FWIW, I can imagine some models for credential and profile that would actually make it appropriate to use identity for one and entity for the other... -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
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