- From: Heather Flanagan (RFC Series Editor) <rse@rfc-editor.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:30:04 -0800
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
On 11/29/16 12:18 PM, Steven Rowat wrote: > On 11/29/16 9:32 AM, msporny@digitalbazaar.com wrote: >> Thanks to Manu Sporny for scribing this week! The minutes for this >> week's Verifiable Claims telecon are now available: >> > ... >> Shane McCarron: Here are some dpub use cases: >> http://w3c.github.io/dpub-pwp-ucr/index.html > > I'd like to note that after scanning through the above link to "Web > Publications..." that even though there are, it's true, many rich > use-cases, the large majority of the effort in the document is for the > benefit of large publishing entities. Perhaps that's not surprising, > since an Adobe employee is one of the Editors. > > For example, the first set of usage cases given in section 2.1.1, concern > only three: > •" A large, multidisciplinary, Web-based journal... > • " Educational publications... > • " BigBoxCo, a large technology company with extensive “in-house” > documentation... " > > This quote from section 3.2 is representative: > > "Req. 19: The distribution of Packaged Web Publications should respect > the existing processes and expectations of professional publishing > channels as well as ad-hoc methods of distribution (eg. email). " > > There is little mention of Authors, and no mention of needing to trust > them. > > In terms of Verifiable Claims, they give only a single use > case under "3.5.2 Authenticity—Origin of a Publication", for a Lawyer > needing to trust "LegalPublisher Ltd." > > I think that's because their focus, appropriately enough since it's > titled "Web Publications Use Cases and Requirements", is on > Publishers. And in the corporate silo publishers' model, you trust the > silo (whether it is Fox News or Penguin Books or the Guardian). > > But if Authors can be Verified and distributed individually through > the Internet, and paid for their work, to what extent will > traditional, as the above document puts it, "existing processes and > expectations of professional publishing channels" be necessary? > Nobody knows. :-) De-lurking for a moment... If you'd be willing to note something to this effect in the issues list, I know we'd really appreciate the feedback! https://github.com/w3c/dpub-pwp-ucr/issues -Heather Flanagan (one of the editors)
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