Re: What are VCs similar to?

Hi Phil,

VCs are a standard data model under control of W3C. Have you considered
that the external (across a trust boundary) protocols associated with VCs
(and DIDs) should be standardized independently of W3C, ideally in IETF?

- Adrian

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:11 AM Phillip D. Long <phil@rhzconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Steve et. al. - You’re right that the non-techie audience, who are savvy
> about many things, just not the tech space, do have trouble seeing the
> value proposition afforded by VCs. In part that’s because it has never been
> possible before to have a trustable assertion without doing the background
> checking. Hence, the costs associated with that process are largely built
> into existing business models. Change business practices is itself costly,
> even if it delivers savings after implementation is achieved. And it opens
> up other possibilities for rethinking the verification process for other
> practices which will be ’new’ to most.
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> A team lead by the Learning Economy Foundation, of which I’m a part, has
> some funding to look at the protocol and standards landscape of the VC
> ecosystem specifically with the intention of building a visual of the
> landscape and then a layman’s guide to the status of the relevant protocols
> with, hopefully, some recommendations for the place to start with VCs for
> basic use cases such as issuing a certificate for completion of a
> credential (education/training). Or, to create self-asserted skills that
> can be endorsed through the VC native Open Badge VC that this group heard
> Kerri Lemoie present a month or so ago.
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> We could use any advice, suggestions and feedback on the emerging protocol
> landscape for issuing and presenting VCs. We’d be happy to share what we
> gather for feedback and suggestions after our first phase of data
> collection (a limited survey) is reviewed and summarized.
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> I like the passport chip analogy, as well!
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> Cheers,
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> On Aug 23, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Steve Capell <steve.capell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Also a good analogy.  Probably depends on your intended audience
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> - 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
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> 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
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> I still struggle with this - almost every day
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> Steven Capell
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> On 23 Aug 2021, at 9:03 pm, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 23. Aug 2021, at 11:49, Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <
> 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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