Blockcerts V3 Proposal - Alignment w/ VC's & DID's

All,

Some of you may already know and/or have been following along. Over the 
last few months, since Rebooting the Web of Trust 9, we have been coming 
up with drafts and proposals for Blockcerts V3 for the alignment of 
Verifiable Credentials 3 & Decentralized Identifiers. The Verifiable 
Credential Data Model has just been officially recommended as a standard 
by the W3C, and the DID Working Group Charter has been officially 
recognized by the W3C as well. This is all very exciting and we are 
excited to begin utilizing these standards that will really propel this 
community forward.

For the most part, the concepts and flow are all the same for now, with 
an optional ability to use Decentralized Identifiers instead of Issuer 
URLs. The main changes are on the data model itself, to align with the 
Verifiable Credential schema.

There’s a few proposed items that may be of interest to the community, 
such as using a display URI to support more than just HTML, and some of 
the ways we could handle an “issuer profile” inside of a DID, etc.

The final paper can be seen here: 
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/final-documents/BlockcertsV3.pdf

As always we appreciate and encourage all feedback, suggestions, 
comments! There’s also a thread on our forums talking about this as 
well: 
https://community.blockcerts.org/t/blockcerts-v3-proposal-verifiable-credentials-decentralized-identifiers/2221


Thank you,
Anthony Ronning

Received on Monday, 6 January 2020 15:07:26 UTC