- From: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:59:39 +0100
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
Wouldnt this be solved by calling VCs verifiable credentials rather than claims and removing the word claim from our vocabulary. regards David On 26/06/2017 23:33, Steven Rowat wrote: > On 2017-06-26 3:00 PM, David Chadwick wrote: >> >> >> On 26/06/2017 16:59, Dave Longley wrote: >>> A potential problem with claimant is that the entity that actually makes >>> the claim is the issuer. >> >> You are misinterpreting the word 'makes' in your sentence above. In the >> various dictionary definitions of claimant, 'makes a claim' is used to >> denote 'asking for something', not 'manufacturing' or 'producing' a >> claim, which is your semantic > > > I believe that in both this and your accompanying email, David, with the > definitions of 'claimant' showing that this can't be the person who > actually produces the claim, you are correct. > > But I believe the problem with using 'Claimant', capital 'C', in the > 'Holder/Presenter...' role is that there is already, unless we change > this too, a Claim, capital 'C', that *is* produced by the Issuer. > > If we used 'Claimant', then we'd be in the position of having: > Person A, the Claimant, 'makes a claim' that the Claim made by the > Issuer is correct. > > If would force us to have 'making a claim' (colloquially) apply to both > roles. > > That seems an unavoidable byproduct of having the official word 'Claim' > for what's being produced by the Issuer. > > I believe this would cause unnecessary confusion and should be avoided. > > Steven > > >> regards >> >> David >> >> >> > >
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