RE: What are VCs similar to?

These are all great examples.



Let me explain my motivation for the original question "what existing protocols/platform standards, in your mind, are the most similar to VCs (at a top-level)?"...



What I'm looking for is a specification (or group of specifications) that we can model/pattern/structure the "VC Specification" after ...i.e. in a similiar way.



Currently, for example, we have the "data model specification", the "use cases" document, an "implementation guide" but, for example, we don't have a top-level document that knits them together (don’t jump on this idea just yet  😊).



So with the above motivation, what, in your mind, is a "best in class" specification (or group of specifications) that describe something similar to "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)"?



Let's give this another kick at the can.



Michael



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From: Steve Capell <steve.capell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What are VCs similar to?



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

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> On 23 Aug 2021, at 9:03 pm, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com<mailto:henry.story@gmail.com>> wrote:

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>> On 23. Aug 2021, at 11:49, Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net<mailto:mwherman@parallelspace.net>> wrote:

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>> 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?

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> X509 Certificates (with 40 years of tech improvements added to them).

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> 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.

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> Henry

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>> Michael Herman

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