Re: The dangers of using VCs as permission tokens

In relation to this thread, is Power of Attorney a use case along these
lines? Power of attorney VCs for certain services and so on?

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 9:59 AM Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The use case that Kyle describes around delegation seems reasonable -- but
> I don't agree with the article's suggestion about how this would/could be
> modeled with VCs. The complexity of VCs as a delegation mechanism is not an
> inherent characteristic of VCs, but rather a characteristic of the wrong VC
> schemas. In other words, Kyle's critique might be better summarized as, "If
> you attempt to adapt complex VCs that weren't built for delegation to a
> simple delegation problem, you get a lot of baggage that makes it easy to
> make mistakes." Cue Alan's comment about confusion...
>
> My conclusion would be: "Don't use complex VC schemas to delegate along
> the lines of the model Kyle warned against."
>
> We had a deep discussion about whether or not to use VCs as OCAPs,
> facilitated by the chairs of the CCG. I suggest that if we want to explore
> this topic further, we allocate proper time and focus to it again, rather
> than touching on it in smaller, less contextualized increments.
>
> --Daniel
>


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