Credentials / Verifiable Claims don't really need an user agent support at all. Define a protocol, message format, and some rules and you are off to the races. But if you want it on every desktop and in every phone... well, you should find a way to engage the people who make desktops and phones. On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > How much does one actually need the browser vendors for this? > Can one not get a lot of this working with JS, sending credentials signed > by some entity? > At least to start off with? > > Henry > > > On 4 Mar 2016, at 14:30, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I've been reading this: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-payments-wg/2016Feb/0527.html > > Is our work valuable at all or is this some sick joke that looks like Wall > Street Execs vs. the concept of law and such things for the billions of > other humans around the planet...? > > After reading this, I have severe concerns about the viability of building > anything meaningful here. > > I think that should be made clear. W3C was established due to issues that > emerged sometime ago. New issues threaten humanity as is influenced > specifically by web standards. Their are a number of very troubling > problems here, and I fully support Manu, who's work has brought all this > together and to suggest otherwise is an act of horrific behaviour I very > much doubt they'd want subject to accountability, as such, > > What are we doing here? > > Timh. > > > -- Shane McCarron Projects Manager, Spec-Ops
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