Re: Authorized Issuer Lists

Hi Manu,

Forgive my ignorance, but couldn’t we simply have the American Bar
Association issue VCs to the schools it wishes to accredit for issuing law
VCs?

Best,

Kyano

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:19 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The topic of "lists of authorized issuers for certain types of
> credentials" has been floating around the VC community for a few years
> now. We don't seem to have hit a point where implementers and
> customers feel they absolutely need the feature, but there has been
> enough curiosity around it to perhaps have some exploratory technical
> discussions at some of the upcoming conferences.
>
> The basic concept here is: Can a verifier lean on established trust it
> has in some authority, such as an accreditation body, to get a list of
> issuers for particular types of credentials? To focus on a use case in
> education, how would the American Bar Association publish a list of
> all law schools that it has accredited to issue law degree VCs?
>
> The following paper calls for the exploration of the topic, starting
> at the upcoming RWoT in The Hague (end of September):
>
>
> https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/advance-readings/authorized-issuer-lists.md
>
> Thoughts, concerns, and identification of similar work, are all welcome.
>
> -- manu
>
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