- From: Steve Capell <steve.capell@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:10:31 +1000
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web)" <mwherman@parallelspace.net>, "public-credentials (public-credentials@w3.org)" <public-credentials@w3.org>
Also a good analogy. Probably depends on your intended audience - a tech audience will most likely understand and appreciate the x.509 analogy - but a business / policy audience will give you a blank stare if you say “it’s just like x.509”. I think the passport chip is a better story for the non tech audience I may venture to suggest that the biggest problem I’ve faced (and probably this group faces) is not convincing tech savvy people - but rather getting business / policy people to understand the benefits to the extent that they will allocate budget to projects so they can realise that benefit I still struggle with this - almost every day Steven Capell Mob: 0410 437854 > On 23 Aug 2021, at 9:03 pm, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 23. Aug 2021, at 11:49, Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote: >> >> If you assume a simple definition of a Verifiable Credentials platform as a set of data models and protocols for creating and verifying verifiable data packets and their exchange between 2 or more software agents (don't get hung up on the specific wording), what existing protocols/platform standards, in your mind, are the most similar to VCs (at a top-level)? >> - DNS? >> - TCP packets? >> - SOAP messages? >> - something else? > > X509 Certificates (with 40 years of tech improvements added to them). > > A Verifiable Claim is just a signed content, and the big leap of VC stack is that > it is built on well defined, open, extensible logics. > > Henry > >> >> Michael Herman >> >> Get Outlook for Android > >
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