Re: WoN Re: Public consultation on EU digital principles

Given that there appears to be no general method to discover VC's
concerning a subject, or VC's which refer to other VC's, I wonder if it
would be reasonable to use the W3C Annotation Protocol
<https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/> as a means to provide
discoverable VC's?

Is there any reason that annotations do not provide a reasonable mechanism
for satisfying these needs in a general way? If so, how do annotations fall
short? What needed capabilities would not be provided by an
annotation-based system? (Note: I recognize that discoverability would be
limited by the inevitable scope limitations of individual annotation
servers or federations of servers.)

bob wyman


On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 5:46 PM Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 1:47 PM Ward, David <dward@pcgus.com> wrote:
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>> Is there a method to discover "public" VCs about a subject?  Being able
>> to publish such a VC would only be useful if others can find it (I'm
>> assuming the comment would be a VC).
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> Not in any general way, but there can be method specific ones.
>
> In did:btcr 0.1 you can retrieve an optional “extended” did object data
> (as you can only fit 80 chars in a Bitcoin transaction), which is merged
> with the blockchain derived data to make the final did object.
>
> By convention, you can append self-signed verifiable credentials to the
> extended did object if you are using JSON-LD. Alternatively, you can add to
> the extended data object a link to an array of self-signed claims.
>
> — Christopher Allen [via iPhone]
>
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