Re: [toolsCCI] Example Immunoglobulin Detection Test Credential

hi Orie

I think the biggest question in your list is online or offline use. Is 
the Internet available or not?  To all the actors or just a subset of 
them? This is the biggest requirement that needs to be addressed first 
before we go much further.

Kind regards

David

On 13/04/2020 07:57, Orie Steele wrote:
> I'm having trouble parsing paragraphs of text into requirements... 
> Lets avoid bluetooth / qr codes until we get these credential format 
> fields documented formally somewhere...
>
> Let's describe the credential types using the VC Data Model 
> terminology: Issuer, Holder, Verifier, Subject, Claims, etc...
>
> Let's describe each credential as a set of inputs and outputs...
>
> Here are some assertions, we should probably get consensus on first:
>
> Subjects will need to be tested multiple times...
>
> TestSubject (Holder)
> - Has internet access.
> - Has identification card with image, type and number.
>
> TestingFacility (Issuer of SampleCollectionCredential)
> - Has a DID.
> - Has internet access.
> - Has website
> - Has location, address / gps
> - Can only issue a SampleCollectionCredential, a form of receipt that 
> a sample was collected and will be tested.
> - Will not test someone who has no form of identification / contact 
> ability. (is this true?)
>
> SampleCollectionCredential
> - credentialSubject.id is hash of (subject identification card type 
> and number + 8-digit-pin)
> - identification card type.
> - testResultEndpoint ( 
> https://example.com/covid-19/test/credentialSubject.id )
> - expiration
>
> TestingLab (Issuer of TestResultCredential)
> - Has a DID.
> - Has internet access.
> - Has website
>
> TestResultCredential
> - credentialSubject.id is hash of (subject identification card type 
> and number + 8-digit-pin)
> - IgM boolean
> - IgG boolean
> - expiration
> - is publically accessible without any form of authentication (is this 
> true?)
>
> TravelEnforcmentPerson (Verifier of Credentials)
> - Has internet access.
> - Can review identity documents
> - Can verify credentials
>
> I worry that assuming the subject will have a DID or be able to do 
> anything but present a bearer token to the verifier is an unreasonable 
> assumption.
>
> In order for a bearer token to be acceptable, it will need to be bound 
> to some identity system which includes an image.
>
> Are we assuming the Subject / Holder has a DID or not?
>
> OS
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1:56 PM D.W.Chadwick 
> <info@verifiablecredentials.info 
> <mailto:info@verifiablecredentials.info>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Eric
>
>     Thankyou for your very detailed discussion below.
>
>     A lot of your comments below are about the topic of "Attribute
>     Aggregation", whereby the holder collects together attribute
>     assertions
>     from many different issuers and submits them either concurrently or
>     sequentially to the verifier. I think this is the correct way to
>     go for
>     medical certificates of all kinds, since each attribute assertion (or
>     VC) is independently collected by the user, each issuer acts
>     independently of the others and does not need to know anything
>     about the
>     other issuers or the attributes they issue, and the *data model and
>     protocol* should provide a mechanism whereby the holder can
>     collect the
>     set and prove possession of the entire set that he/she presents to
>     the
>     verifier.
>
>     We implemented such a system many years ago for federated identity
>     management using SAML, and Open ID Connect now supports this
>     feature in
>     its protocols (as does our COVID-19 Immunisation Certificate
>     verifiable
>     credential middleware). In our case the unifying feature is a
>     transient
>     public key in each assertion, and the holder signs the
>     presentation to
>     prove possession of the collection.
>
>     As you say, we certainly should not be asking the user to remember
>     yet
>     another password. Such cognitive overload is unnecessary.
>
>     Working offline as your require, it is impossible to achieve the
>     above,
>     because offline working does not allow transient identifiers to be
>     used.
>     Persistent IDs must be used in this case, and each presentation
>     (big QR
>     code) will be the same and contain the same linking ID, thereby
>     losing
>     some of the holder's privacy. But these sorts of trade-offs are
>     necessary, as no system can provide all the most desirable features.
>
>     So whether the linking id is transient or persistent will depend upon
>     the use case.
>
>     I would add that using persistent IDs with offline working introduces
>     the added complexity of revocation. What happens when the paper QR
>     code
>     given to a person becomes invalid because a new strain of COVID-19
>     has
>     arisen, meaning that their immunity is no longer valid. You might
>     argue
>     that you could build in blanket refusal to everyone with a similar
>     immunity certificate, but this might be too blunt an instrument. It
>     depends upon the science of immunity, of which I know nothing.
>
>     kind regards
>
>     David
>
>     On 13/04/2020 04:02, Eric Welton (Korsimoro) wrote:
>     >
>     > My original concern about the proposed VC involved the linking of
>     > id-proofing material with the medical data. For example
>     > {
>     >   { IgG...., nameData...., humanSexualityFields....,
>     > schema.orgPersonDescriptions..... }
>     > }
>     > And this was replaced with the following model
>     > {
>     >   { IgG...., identityDocumentLinkData.....}
>     >   { identityDocumentLinkData...., restOfIdentityData..... }
>     > }
>     > where identityDocumentLinkData included an "identity document
>     type",
>     > and a field value for the externally defined "primary key like
>     field"
>     > for that identity document type.  The example given was the highly
>     > u.s. specific "Driving License", but could easily be extended to
>     > include other identifying document, like national ids. This
>     however,
>     > introduces "low-value complexity" because of the need to have the
>     > medical information model include a semantical model of allowable
>     > identity-proofing documents - for example, are Saudi Arabian
>     Iqama's
>     > or Thai Resident Laborer Alien Cards ("Pink Cards") or United
>     States
>     > IR-visa cards acceptable?  Where is this registry maintained -
>     because
>     > it is required so that you can look up the appropriate "field
>     name" in
>     > the id-proofing data - either that or you start pulling even
>     more of
>     > the id-proofing metadata into the medical information.
>     >
>     > And what does this identity proofing data have to do with the raw
>     > medical information?  All of this complexity can be avoided by
>     simply
>     > taking advantage of the adjacency of the credentialSubject material
>     > and the fact that there is a unifying signature over that data -
>     as in
>     > {
>     >  {.... medical information }
>     >  {.... id-proofing data, "this is a <name of document type>" }
>     > } => signature (or hash)
>     >
>     > This lets you focus on modeling the medical information
>     independent of
>     > the identity-proofing information, and lets the verifier,
>     holder, and
>     > issuer use the id-proofing information as is appropriate to the
>     > context.  It does not mandate, for example, disclosure of a Social
>     > Security Number to a medical testing lab.
>     >
>     > We also have a need to associate multiple pieces of medical
>     > information, which are produced later - in different times and
>     places
>     > - with the identiity information.  For example - blood collected
>     at a
>     > medical intake facility might produce an initial record
>     > (SampleCollectionCredential) like
>     > {
>     >  { linkCode = <collision-resistant-pii-free-identifier> }
>     >  {.... medical information }
>     >  {.... id-proofing data, "this is a <name of document type>" }
>     > } => signature
>     > where the medical information may be nothing more than a bar-code
>     > printed on a label printer and attached to a test-tube, or may
>     be more
>     > sophisticated - as long as it is PII free.  Location, facility,
>     > attendant and that sort of information is split across the medical
>     > information and issuer identification as appropriate - or perhaps
>     > there are other data blocks {.... facility information } or {....
>     > weather conditions }, etc.
>     >
>     > At a later time, the above SampleCollectionCredential is used to
>     > produce the following TestResultsCredential
>     > {
>     >  { .... linkCode }
>     >  { .... second medical information }
>     >  { .... third medical information }
>     > } => signature
>     >
>     > where the lab facility and processing information is again split
>     > between the issuer and the medical records - perhaps there are
>     serial
>     > numbers of re-agent lots or testing-kid GTIN/NTIN numbers, or
>     any bits
>     > of other data TBD.
>     >
>     > Importantly, no PII is used to link these records - it is an
>     arbitrary
>     > id, and not sha256(id-proofing-document-type,
>     > id-proofing-document-primary-key-field-value,
>     > 8-digit-one-time-use-passcode).  Use of a purely random collision
>     > resistant identifier, like a UUID or public-key fingerprint, avoids
>     > the problems inherent in id-proofing document meta modeling (which
>     > require that we have a central registry of allowable id-proof types
>     > and models which minimally allows us to identify the primary key
>     field
>     > in the id-proofing data model)...
>     >
>     > It also avoids placing the cognitive burden on the subject for
>     > remembering yet another passcode - which they should probably write
>     > down on whatever document is provided.  For example, a feasible
>     way to
>     > maintain reference to the data is through a couple of QR codes
>     > pointing to cloud-backed storage of the information, such as
>     > http://example.com/covid/collection/<linkCode>?password=12345678
>     > with the later-produced lab results available at
>     > http://example.com/covid/results/<linkCode>?password=12345678
>     >
>     > Importantly, the password is just encoded in the QR code, but
>     > otherwise in plaintext.  If we force the user to memorize the
>     > password, we should provide a way to to record the user's
>     password and
>     > allow them to recover it, as remembering "yet another series of
>     random
>     > digits" is very, very difficult.  Perhaps they could "store it in
>     > their phone" as a fake phone number, or write it down on a little
>     > sticker, or we can give them a password recovery password, which
>     > itself would need a password recovery password recovery password,
>     > which itself would need a ......  Perhaps we could let them
>     > "authenticate with google" or use their facebook login to
>     retrieve the
>     > password automatically....
>     >
>     > The difficulty of supporting this password makes me want to step
>     back
>     > and look at the role it plays.  The need to restrict access to
>     > information is *critical* when the medical information contains
>     > personally identifying information, such as is the case in this
>     model
>     > {
>     >  { medical information...., idType=texasDriversLicense,
>     > idPrimaryKey="12345" }
>     >  { detailed id-proofing information, idType=texasDriversLicense,
>     > texasDepartmentOfPublicSafetyNumber="12345" }
>     > }
>     > and, the subsequent test results are modeled as
>     > {
>     >  { hashOfPII_and_Password }
>     >  { test1Results..... }
>     >  { test2Results..... }
>     > }
>     > but it is less of a concern when modeled as
>     > {
>     >  { <collision-resistant-arbitrary-pii-free-identifier> }
>     >  { medical information.... }
>     >  { detailed id-proofing information, idType=texasDriversLicense,
>     > texasDepartmentOfPublicSafetyNumber="12345" }
>     > }
>     > and, the subsequent test results are modeled as
>     > {
>     >  { <collision-resistant-arbitrary-pii-free-identifier> }
>     >  { test1Results..... }
>     >  { test2Results..... }
>     > }
>     >
>     > In the latter there is no strong connection between the source and
>     > result data, but the connection is there and acceptance of it is a
>     > matter of personal taste and the reality of the sponsoring
>     agency or
>     > health authority operating the initial point of medical contact and
>     > testing.  Subjects should not trust any random person sitting in a
>     > cardboard box under a bridge with collecting their blood and
>     promising
>     > they'll send it for testing - rather, there is some organization
>     > making the outreach and contracting with testing labs. It is *this*
>     > organization which is in a position to provide some level of access
>     > control, such as running the example.com <http://example.com>
>     <http://example.com> website
>     > allowing subjects and policy enforcement officers to access the
>     data
>     > later on.
>     >
>     > In terms of "logging on to the lab website" rather than through the
>     > example.com <http://example.com> <http://example.com> website,
>     is a secondary consideration
>     > which may or may not make sense. In either case, the
>     orchestrators of
>     > the collection process have first-line access to id-proofing
>     material,
>     > and this material can be used to log in later - perhaps making
>     use of
>     > any of the numerous services that provide direct verification of
>     > primary id-proofing documents. Alternatively, sponsoring
>     organizations
>     > are likely to require that users download an "app" for the devices
>     > that manage those users, and use a "log in with facebook" model
>     for a
>     > web-site serving non-device managed people.
>     >
>     > The business concerns of that sponsoring organization, or of the
>     lab's
>     > business models should not influence the credential design - but
>     they
>     > do benefit from maximum separation of concerns within the
>     credential
>     > design.  This gives the most flexilibity and minimizes PII
>     liability.
>     >
>     > Jurisdiction also plays a huge role - at MyData 2019 i saw a
>     slide (I
>     > am blanking on whose presentation) - but it listed three
>     approaches to
>     > data.  The american approach where data control belongs to
>     businesses,
>     > the chinese approach where data control belongs to the state,
>     and the
>     > european model where data control belongs to the individual.  The
>     > organization supporting the testing and issuance, and any direct
>     > access to results via the testing lab or 3rd parties, will
>     operate in
>     > one of these contexts.  It is not the responsibility of the covid
>     > credential model to take a position on this - rather it must remain
>     > orthogonal to these concerns.  This means that ensuring individual
>     > control over the use of the data is *not* in scope while making any
>     > structure which *prohibits* control over the data must be avoided.
>     >
>     > What we must maximize is the independence of data points - maximize
>     > the separation of concerns - because this and only this gives us
>     the
>     > flexibility we need to operate on a global scale.
>     >
>     > We also need to note that, while the initial { medical
>     information...
>     > } can be PII free, the following test results may or may not be PII
>     > free - depending on the depth and detail of the test.  If the
>     test is
>     > only about "antibody present/absent" - then it is not PII
>     sensitive,
>     > but if it contained detailed analysis of a set of genetic
>     markers such
>     > that it was effectively a DNA fingerprint, then one might argue
>     that
>     > it was PII.  This influences the acceptability of the other
>     components
>     > and the risks inherent in the linkability of data - and it is
>     > sensitive to your operating context.
>     >
>     > A great deal can be achieved in mitigating the current virus
>     > distribution by supporting only low-PII rest results, and zero-PII
>     > linking keys.
>     >
>     > Regardless of PII exposure in the testing pipeline - the
>     verification
>     > context we seek looks like this:
>     >
>     > /1. subject approaches policy enforcement officer and presents/
>     > /1.1 - QR code (digital or analog)
>     > /
>     > /1.2 - original identity proofing document (digital or analog)
>     > /
>     > /1.3 - self (analog)
>     > /
>     > /2. policy enforcement officer..../
>     > /2.1 - scans QR code and retrieves id-proofing data for
>     > <collision-resistant-arbitrary-pii-free-identifier> (performing
>     issuer
>     > verification)
>     > /
>     > /2.2 - makes judgement call as to whether id-proofing matches,
>     using
>     > whatever tools are appropriate - this could include everything
>     from a
>     > checkpoint guard simply looking at the photo on their screen, along
>     > with basic demographic data and then looking at the person in
>     front of
>     > them - or it could be more sophisticated, using biometrics ranging
>     > from facial recognition to voice printing and fingerprints./
>     > /2.3 - optionally requests some indication from the subject to
>     > "release" the test results - but this is optional, and depends upon
>     > the tooling available to the policy enforcement officer and the
>     > subject and the context - this is roughly equivalent to the use
>     of the
>     > PIN, but could be expanded (if SSI enabled) to include consent
>     > tracking (in situations where that is relevant)
>     > /
>     > /2.4 - retrieves the relevant test results (performing issuer
>     > verification) and determines appropriate course of action -
>     allowing
>     > the subject to continue, blocking the subject, or detaining the
>     subject/
>     >
>     > Note that the subject is almost entirely passive. The digital
>     > signatures support the identification of the issuer - and that can
>     > easily be tied in with existing PKI, where that exists, as well as
>     > using DIDs if that works - this is determined by the policy
>     > enforcement context.  Data could be presented by the subject either
>     > digitally or analog, as is appropriate to the context. What we
>     > generally do not need is the subject to engage in negotiation,
>     or be
>     > able to "forget a password" or otherwise hose up the policy
>     > enforcement pipeline. Imagine how long it would take to get on the
>     > subway if everyone had to "haggle" a ticket price - it is bad
>     enough
>     > using PIN based debit cards, which is why the typical subway
>     access is
>     > mediated by side-loaded stored-value systems - which excludes
>     "putting
>     > in a PIN" from the primary enforcement pipeline - this is the
>     > sensibility we need to pursue.
>     >
>     > What is horrific about the above model is that the policy
>     enforcement
>     > is going to a central database that has "all the records" - that is
>     > kinda what we want to avoid.  To avoid this we need to get a third
>     > credential - and ideally one that is "fit for purpose" (e.g.
>     tailored
>     > to the policy enforcement need, and perhaps sponsored by/issued by
>     > that agency) - or, alternatively, one that is generic - in which
>     case
>     > it should be offered by some common agency which is financially
>     > supported by the policy enforcement agencies.
>     >
>     > Such a third party might be related to the same agency
>     supporting the
>     > testing tents and outreach - and the same considerations about
>     > "logging in" apply.
>     >
>     > What is important is that these tertiary credentials can
>     effectively
>     > act like a zero-knowledge-proof or a ZCAP key.  For example - let's
>     > imagine that I wanted to screen people at an inter-state border,
>     only
>     > allowing people to enter my state if they could prove that they had
>     > recently been tested and are negative.  What I want at the
>     border is a
>     > very fast test with no network access - like scanning a "big QR
>     code"
>     > - it is easy to imagine a system with this verification strategy:
>     > 1. subject approaches policy enforcement officer (or system) and
>     presents
>     > 1.1. self (stares into camera)
>     > 1.2 qr code (holds up to camera)
>     > 2. policy enforcement officer (or system)
>     > 2.1 performs facial recognition between self and image encoded
>     in qr
>     > code and/or bound to id-proofing document
>     > 2.2 checks that 'virus testing result' matches policy
>     > 2.3 verifies issuer credentials
>     > 2.4 makes policy decision (for example, raises gate and allows
>     subject
>     > to pass)
>     >
>     > This would be completely feasible - it has no network round
>     trips so
>     > there is no essential central honeypot of test results.
>     Furthermore,
>     > the subject could (in jurisdictions with GDPR-like legislation)
>     > request that any central records of the first stages be deleted,
>     > meaning that the QR code (either on a sticker or in their phone
>     or any
>     > other device that manages them) is the only record of the data -
>     yet
>     > it was born with a chain-of-evidence and data-provenance which
>     > provides strong indication of trustworthiness.
>     >
>     > You can also imagine that later, as this ecosystem matures,
>     tertiary
>     > credentials could be issued almost automatically - using the ever
>     > improving systems that support online verification of the original
>     > id-proofing document, along with liveness checks and strong
>     > audio/visual biometrics - and this brings us to *SSI* and *cloud
>     > agents*.  All of the above can be improved through the use of SSI
>     > technology - be it either cloud-agents or edge-agents. What is
>     > essential is that the process is possible without SSI
>     technology.  SSI
>     > and private-key management must be an enhancement to this
>     process, not
>     > a requirement.
>     >
>     > Furthermore, SSI agents enable advanced control over the further
>     uses
>     > of testing associated information - where agents are understood
>     > generically - perhaps they are Aires agents, or perhaps they are
>     > HIE-of-one Trustees.  Until that infrastructure is ubiquitous and
>     > business practices and policy enforcement endpoints are well
>     poised to
>     > make use of them, we must not require it.  We are building
>     towards a
>     > world where our solution looks like this
>     > {
>     >  {.... medical information }
>     >  {.... did }
>     > } => signature (or hash)
>     > And where eventually we will use the service_endpoints of the
>     DID to
>     > answer every request for id-proofing data with the question "who
>     > want's to know" and make a private-policy driven decision for
>     > information release, therefore giving the individual control
>     over all
>     > exchanges of their health information - we just aren't there
>     yet.  On
>     > the other hand, this is a phenomenal opportunity for bootstrapping
>     > that universe if we can find just the right way to sidestep the
>     > chicken-and-egg problem.
>     >
>     > The only step that can be taken - at this point - is isolating, as
>     > early as possible, PII from medical information and break from
>     > traditional practices, which would use PII in place of
>     > opaque-identifiers.  This is a significant step forward - as it is
>     > extremely tempting to start out with data using structures like
>     > {
>     >  IgG...
>     >  IgM...
>     >  gender....
>     >  firstName...
>     >  lastName...
>     >  address....
>     >  mobileNumber...
>     >  emailAddress...
>     > }
>     >
>     > So - I think we can make a huge step forward using the
>     technology we
>     > have and deploying it in a way that works for DID and phone free
>     > individuals, and supports  rapid, low cost, offline deployment in
>     > front-line policy enforcement scenarios across all tiers of
>     technical
>     > capabilities.  We can achieve these goals with this model:
>     > *Sample Collection Credential:*
>     > {
>     >  { linkCode = <collision-resistant-pii-free-identifier> }
>     >  {.... medical information }
>     >  {.... id-proofing data, "this is a <name of document type>" }
>     > } => signature
>     > *Test Results Credential:*
>     > {
>     >  { .... linkCode }
>     >  { .... second medical information }
>     >  { .... third medical information }
>     > } => signature
>     > and derive *Rapid Clearance Credentials* (QR encoding) to
>     facilitate
>     > zero-network, minimal-PII, high quality, point-of-enforcement
>     decision
>     > making.
>     >
>     > This is something we have all the tools to deliver quickly. Maximal
>     > separation of data concerns minimizes risk of abuse and can
>     adapt to
>     > worldwide conditions across a huge range of technical
>     realities.  This
>     > opens the door to improvement via SSI technology - specifically
>     agents
>     > and trustees, and sophisticated personal information wallets.
>     >
>     > best,
>     >
>     >  -e
>     >
>     >
>     > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:28 AM orie
>     <orie@transmute.industries> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Based on feedback from Daniel Hardman and Adrian's comments, I'm
>     >     planning on implementing a new ImmunoglobulinDetectionTest
>     schema.
>     >
>     >     The first format was aimed at anyone with a face, and assumed a
>     >     cassette test and that the credential subject has a DID.
>     >
>     >     There pros and cons to that approach... the most obvious con is
>     >     that absolutely nobody has DIDs.
>     >
>     >     I like the idea of splitting up the sample collection part and
>     >     rest results part into 2 credentials, and using existing
>     >     identifiers and hashing to link them.
>     >
>     >     Here would be the new user story:
>     >
>     >     1. Subject drives up to a tent in a parking lot.
>     >
>     >     2. Testing Facility Checks some id ( "presentedIDType: a
>     picklist
>     >     with strings such as "drivers license", "passport", "national ID
>     >     card", etc " )
>     >
>     >     3. Testing Facility Collects blood sample and issues a
>     >     "SampleCollectionCredential"
>     >
>     >     subject = sha256 ( presentedIDType + presentedIDNumber +
>     8-DIGIT-PIN )
>     >     presentedIDType (repeated in credential)
>     >     testResultURL: https://example.com/covid-19/vc-test-results/ (
>     >     subject )
>     >
>     >     credential is provided on paper, to the subject after sample is
>     >     taken (multiple copies are provided, and it's safe for them
>     to be
>     >     copied further).
>     >
>     >     4. sample get sent to lab... days go by, etc...
>     >
>     >     5. Subjects can check a registry for their test results,
>     when test
>     >     results are ready they are published at a URL, which is provided
>     >     to them in their credential.
>     >
>     >     testResultURL: https://example.com/covid-19/vc-test-results/ (
>     >     subject )
>     >
>     >     6. Subject can present test results to TSA / Law Enforcement
>     when
>     >     traveling by presenting their "SampleCollectionCredential" ,
>     >     whatever ID type they used for it, and disclosing their 8
>     DIGIT PIN
>     >
>     >     7. Verification is as follows
>     >     7.1 confirming the face / gender / eyes / height (etc) of the ID
>     >     Card used for "SampleCollectionCredential"
>     >     7.2 Verify "SampleCollectionCredential" (no VP here, since the
>     >     subject has no keys / DID).
>     >     7.3 Confirm  subject = sha256 (
>     >     presentedIDType + presentedIDNumber + 8-DIGIT-PIN ) (website
>     helps
>     >     them do this)
>     >     7.3 Lookup testResultURL:
>     > https://example.com/covid-19/vc-test-results/ ( subject )
>     >     7.4 Verify "SampleTestResultCredential"
>     >     7.5 Apply allow / deny list (any other business logic rules)
>     >
>     >
>     >     Only the issuers would have DIDs in this scenario, and there
>     would
>     >     be no signed verifiable presentations.
>     >
>     >     anyone with presentedIDType + presentedIDNumber + 8-DIGIT-PIN,
>     >     could claim a test result belonged to them, and its the
>     >     responsibility of the verifier to check the presentedIDType.
>     >
>     >     Assuming that the presentedIDType where digital and
>     >     that SampleCollectionCredential were digital, a Presentation
>     that
>     >     included the disclosure of the 8-DIGIT-PIN could be made
>     over any
>     >     transport that was supported ( CHAPI / DIDComm / Bluetooth )
>     >
>     >     OS
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:40 PM Adrian Gropper
>     >     <agropper@healthurl.com <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com>
>     <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >         inline...
>     >
>     >         On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:06 PM Orie Steele
>     >         <orie@transmute.industries> wrote:
>     >
>     >             I'm not sure the exact context but I think the following
>     >             is equivalent to what you are suggesting.
>     >
>     >
>     >         The context is getting through a door by showing the bouncer
>     >         your phone the way you might a driver's license. This is not
>     >         like showing a boarding pass to the gate agent because
>     there's
>     >         no pre-registration. The main issue in this context, is
>     >         whether the bouncer thinks you've borrowed somebody else's
>     >         license or tampered with your own license. There is no
>     privacy
>     >         issue as long as the bouncer promises not to save any PII
>     >         after he makes a decision to let you in or not.
>     >
>     >
>     >             1. Testing facility draws blood from people with
>     driver's
>     >             licenses.
>     >             2. Testing facility labels samples with unique id =
>     >             sha256(drivers license + salt).
>     >
>     >             3. When I log into the lab (how? by email, phone
>     number?,
>     >             anybody can see results?)... I can find the result of my
>     >             test, which contains no PII, by knowing my drivers
>     license
>     >             number and the salt.
>     >
>     >
>     >         By the hash. The hash was generated by your wallet. The lab
>     >         never sees the actual driver's license.
>     >
>     >         The lab issues a VC to the hash that includes your test
>     result.
>     >
>     >             4. When someone asks for my results, I can show them my
>     >             drivers license and disclose the salt, and the can go
>     >             download the results themself, or confirm that the
>     results
>     >             I provided have the same identifier... but I also need
>     >             them to believe that whatever I provided them has
>     not been
>     >             tampered with, hence they also verify the VC.
>     >
>     >
>     >         I'm not sure about the salt. If I trust the verifier not to
>     >         store the data from my driver's license, I can let them
>     >         calculate the hash (with salt) and match it to the VC
>     that was
>     >         issued to the hash.
>     >
>     >
>     >             There are a couple things combined in these which it's
>     >             probably a good idea to seperate.
>     >
>     >             1. VC Format (sample identifier is a deterministic
>     >             function of an existing identifier, and we trust the
>     test
>     >             facility to generate this).
>     >
>     >
>     >         Not necessarily. The association between the sample and the
>     >         driver's license may be made by a nurse that draws the
>     blood.
>     >         The nurse saves nothing but might sign the hash with her
>     >         credentials in order to be held accountable.
>     >
>     >             2. VC is signed at the lab, not at the point of
>     >             collection... so we trust the lab, they are the issuer,
>     >             and we trust them not to change the identifier from the
>     >             facility... the lab does not need any PII to do its
>     job...
>     >             unless they provide a web portal to log in with pii.. if
>     >             they just disclose test results publically, then they
>     >             don't need PII.
>     >
>     >
>     >         Yes, mostly. The result is accessed by the hash. This is
>     >         similar to how COVID bluetooth proximity schemes (Google and
>     >         Apple announcement) are based on pseudorandom rotating IDs
>     >         that can only be re-identified by the issuing app which is
>     >         under the control of the subject (the wallet).
>     >
>     >             3. VCs are disclosed via some permission system
>     (login)...
>     >             not defined, but I would assume sms / email / IAL Level
>     >             2... implies the lab needs PII. or that the login
>     >             mechanism is knowing a sample-id...
>     >
>     >
>     >         No. The lab has zero PII.
>     >
>     >             4. Presentation of the VC includes the disclosure of
>     >             information which can be used to bind an existing
>     >             identifier (drivers license) to the rest results...
>     >
>     >
>     >         Yes.
>     >
>     >
>     >             VCs for tests that have to be retrieved from the lab are
>     >             harder than ones that come from a facility that just
>     does
>     >             everything, which is why i tackled the easy case
>     first...
>     >             but I guess its probably much more realistic that people
>     >             would have to wait  / lookup their results.
>     >
>     >
>     >         Yes.
>     >
>     >         Thank you,
>     >         - Adrian
>     >
>     >
>     >             OS
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >             On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:06 PM Adrian Gropper
>     >             <agropper@healthurl.com
>     <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com> <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com
>     <mailto:agropper@healthurl.com>>>
>     >             wrote:
>     >
>     >                 Apologies if I missed the answer elsewhere but I'm
>     >                 lost when it comes to the photo on a driver's
>     license.
>     >                 I'll ask again:
>     >                 - The state driver's license in my pocket has a
>     photo,
>     >                 a license number, and some tamper-resistant
>     features.
>     >                 - When I go get a serology test, the person
>     drawing my
>     >                 blood might look at my license, write a hash of my
>     >                 license number and photo on the tube and send to
>     the lab
>     >                 - I log in to the lab, search for the hash that was
>     >                 put on the tube and download the result to my wallet
>     >                 - When someone asks for my result, I show them my
>     >                 driver's license with my photo and the hash of the
>     >                 number matches the VC I received from the lab
>     >
>     >                 So,
>     >                 - My photo and the driver's license number never
>     left
>     >                 my wallet.
>     >                 - A tamper-resistant scheme has to prevent me from
>     >                 changing the photo on my license without also
>     changing
>     >                 the hash that labels the sample and the result.
>     >
>     >                 What am I missing?
>     >
>     >                 - Adrian
>     >
>     >                 On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:56 AM Orie Steele
>     >                 <orie@transmute.industries> wrote:
>     >
>     >                     CC'ing the W3C Mailing list, since
>     this discussion
>     >                     of COVID-19 Credentials has been discussed there
>     >                     as well...
>     >
>     >                     Most of the attributes are just leftovers from
>     >                     basing the credential on a
>     Permanent Resident Card.
>     >
>     >                     I'm not sure how the VC Data Model values
>     would be
>     >                     collected, but it's sometimes the case that an
>     >                     organization will use birthdate, gender and name
>     >                     to double check that things like SSN / Driver's
>     >                     License are accurate (I've seen this kind of
>     >                     overcollection in healthcare, for this exact
>     >                     reason)... people make mistakes when entering
>     >                     data, having a group of values to check against,
>     >                     helps mitigate the damage caused by these
>     >                     mistakes, but it's not a perfect solution.
>     >
>     >                     I was expecting some request for a binding to a
>     >                     SSN / Drivers License... I'm not sure
>     >                     that's actually a good idea, but I'm not an
>     expert.
>     >
>     >                     My thought was that this credential could be
>     >                     provided by a laptop computer in a tent, to
>     people
>     >                     who have no existing identification (persons
>     >                     experiencing homelessness, refugees, etc...)
>     >
>     >                     Obviously you don't need a picture or any of the
>     >                     PII fields if you are just going to bind to
>     >                     another identity system like drivers license
>     >                     number... but that credential won't work for
>     >                     people who are not registered...
>     >
>     >                     The credential format could be expanded to
>     include
>     >                     either a binding to a well known identity
>     system,
>     >                     OR the current approach... that might give
>     us the
>     >                     best of both worlds.
>     >
>     >                     If you can leave comments on the PR, that will
>     >                     help make sure that other communities
>     (outside of
>     >                     these mailing lists) can see your thoughts.
>     >
>     >                     Thanks for the feedback!
>     >
>     >                     OS
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >                     On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:11 AM Daniel Hardman
>     >                     <daniel.hardman@evernym.com
>     <mailto:daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
>     >                     <mailto:daniel.hardman@evernym.com
>     <mailto:daniel.hardman@evernym.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >                         Regarding Eric's comments about identifying
>     >                         the subject:
>     >
>     >                         The strategy proposed in the schemas doc
>     in a
>     >                         couple places [1
>     >                       
>      <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F5TLvAqCxj1kaPuPe6JhdECixwpbhKpEAb8eeQuDGT4/edit?disco=AAAAGVNlqxU>,
>     >                         2
>     >                       
>      <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F5TLvAqCxj1kaPuPe6JhdECixwpbhKpEAb8eeQuDGT4/edit#heading=h.31e94ad08nhb>]
>     >                         is to provide just enough information about
>     >                         the holder to let them be linked to other
>     >                         credentials (physical or digital/VC) that
>     >                         provide strong identification as needed.
>     >                         Orie's example is mostly aligned with this
>     >                         proposal, though its birthdate + photo
>     may be
>     >                         a little more than is needed. The reasoning
>     >                         behind this is that a lab isn't going to be
>     >                         authoritative about facts of birth, and
>     >                         probably isn't going to take a photo of each
>     >                         test subject, but probably will check a
>     >                         stronger form of ID when the test sample is
>     >                         submitted -- so whatever form of ID they
>     >                         check, they need to embed just enough info
>     >                         about the holder in their results to
>     allow the
>     >                         holder to present the same strong
>     >                         identification later.
>     >
>     >                         An example of how this could be tweaked to
>     >                         embody the proposal a little better might be
>     >                         to remove the photo and birthdate
>     fields, and
>     >                         to add the following two fields:
>     >
>     >                         presentedIDType: a picklist with strings
>     such
>     >                         as "drivers license", "passport",
>     "national ID
>     >                         card", etc
>     >                         presentedIDNumber: the number from whatever
>     >                         strong identification the test subject
>     >                         supplied when submitting the sample
>     >
>     >                         Now it becomes clear how Eric can
>     explain the
>     >                         trust dynamics to a harried government
>     >                         official: "The testing regime has the same
>     >                         trust dynamics as our national ID
>     >                         card/passport/driver's licenses, because
>     that
>     >                         form of ID has to be used to submit a
>     sample,
>     >                         and the same ID has to be used when
>     presenting
>     >                         the test results."
>     >
>     >                         On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:58 AM Eric Welton
>     >                         (Korsimoro) <eric@korsimoro.com
>     <mailto:eric@korsimoro.com>
>     >                         <mailto:eric@korsimoro.com
>     <mailto:eric@korsimoro.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >                             Fantastic!  Thanks!
>     >
>     >                             I have a two questions and am thinking
>     >                             about how I could summarize/present this
>     >                             to a government minister and relate
>     it to
>     >                             a paper form version of the same.
>     >
>     >                             First question: what is a TestCard? and
>     >                             what role does that play?
>     >
>     >                             Second - and this is a question that is
>     >                             more "general" - i'm not nitpicking this
>     >                             specific example, but wondering more
>     about
>     >                             credential design in general and how we
>     >                             want to deal with the issue of subject
>     >                             identification:
>     >
>     >                             - in addition to IgG and IgM - the
>     context
>     >                             explicitly out a name-pair,
>     birthday, and
>     >                             something to do with the subject's
>     >                             sexuality, and the Person structure from
>     > schema.org <http://schema.org> <http://schema.org> is called
>     >                             out, where most of the fields in the
>     >                             Person model are not particularly useful
>     >                             for identifying a Person but more about
>     >                             "describing" a Person or Person-like
>     thing.
>     >
>     >                             Taken together, the presented
>     information
>     >                             doesn't let me easily point to a
>     Person in
>     >                             a way that is immediately useful to me -
>     >                             for my use cases, I would imagine one of
>     >                             the two:
>     >                             - a national id number or semantic
>     model,
>     >                             with optional image (citizens)
>     >                             - a passport semantic model, with
>     optional
>     >                             image (foreigners)
>     >
>     >                             I don't see this as a deep problem,
>     >                             because I can always build up
>     context that
>     >                             matches the identification context
>     >                             relative to my expected use context
>     - e.g.
>     >                             I want a checkpoint guard to be able to
>     >                             see the IgM/IgG information, an F2F
>     >                             presented plastic national id card or
>     >                             passport, and make a policy enforcement
>     >                             decision.
>     >
>     >                             So the question is just more generic -
>     >                             drawing on this example as a starting
>     >                             point and using it to explore guidance -
>     >                             how can we do this systematically so
>     that
>     >                             we don't have covid credentials that
>     vary
>     >                             for every issuance context based
>     solely on
>     >                             the properties of "subject
>     identification"?
>     >
>     >                             One option is to push that out of the
>     >                             credential entirely, and let that come
>     >                             from the wallet or alternate documents
>     >                             provided during presentation -
>     linked only
>     >                             by cryptographic material. But that
>     brings
>     >                             in a raft of problems and would be a
>     hard
>     >                             sell in a 30 second elevator pitch to a
>     >                             busy and distracted government
>     minister -
>     >                             especially one with a mental model of a
>     >                             physical form with tons of lateral
>     >                             information on it.
>     >
>     >                             The other option is to try to
>     "define the
>     >                             subject information" in the credential
>     >                             over and over - like, family name, given
>     >                             name, birth date, sexual idiosyncracies,
>     >                             DUNS number, brand, funder,
>     >                             honorificSuffix, interactionStatistic,
>     >                             product offerings, performances,
>     employer,
>     >                             or many of the other Person
>     attributes ;)
>     >
>     >                             Perhaps a strategy of figuring out
>     how to
>     >                             pool information in loosely coupled
>     groups
>     >                             - e.g. only the Ig* values in one group,
>     >                             the person identification in another -
>     >                             perhaps as a one-or-more-of-many
>     selection
>     >                             - there might be a pattern we can
>     >                             establish here that clearly isolates the
>     >  human-identification-variability from the
>     >                             relatively stable science-driven
>     covid-19
>     >                             data.
>     >
>     >                             again - my concern is for explaining
>     this
>     >                             to a non-technical politician as soon as
>     >                             Monday - and we assume that person
>     has an
>     >                             existing mental model, one that
>     looks like
>     >                             "all the other test result
>     documentation"
>     >                             they've seen - with a bunch of
>     >                             socially-specific subject identification
>     >                             information, issuer identification
>     >                             information, document photocopies, and
>     >                             signatures, stamps, and more signatures,
>     >                             and more stamps - in red, for extra
>     >                             authentication and security.
>     >
>     >                             best,
>     >
>     >                               -e
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >                             On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:06 AM orie
>     >  <orie@transmute.industries> wrote:
>     >
>     > https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-examples/pull/30
>     >
>     >                                 Based on the new schema.org
>     <http://schema.org>
>     >                                 <http://schema.org> definitions for
>     >                                 COVID-19 testing facilities and the
>     >                                 DHS SVIP hypothetical Permanent
>     >                                 Resident Card.
>     >
>     >                                 Issued from a did:web, Presented
>     by a
>     >                                 did:key.
>     >
>     >                                 Comments welcome.
>     >
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