Re: Authorized Issuer Lists

How about just a simple issued credentials report as a VC? In the end its
only the issuers, or potentially a social effort to say how many
credentials one have issued. And if there is a report as a VC like this, it
should be able to dispute it.
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 1:50 AM John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:

> >… and the volume of usage of those issues credentials by verifiers can be
> tracked so that people can infer how trusted it is by the volume and
> diversity of who is using those verifiers
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> > … Do any of the specifications support this kind of governance? I’d be
> curious to hear peoples thoughts on this.
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> Curious about this as well.
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> I would like to understand approaches to track “ … the volume of usage of
> those issues credentials by verifiers can be tracked so that people can
> infer …“ in such a manner that is resistant to gaming that metric, since it
> could end up becoming a situation very similar to how folks try to game
> Google’s PageRank algorithm.
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> Best Regards,
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> Anil
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> *From:* Leah Houston, MD <leah@hpec.io>
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> *To:* Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
> *Cc:* Kyano Kashi <kyanokashi2@gmail.com>; Manu Sporny <
> msporny@digitalbazaar.com>; Steve Capell <steve.capell@gmail.com>; Tobias
> Looker <tobias.looker@mattr.global>; W3C Credentials CG <
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> I think in order to avoid a dystopian situation there needs to be a way to
> self register on these lists… Anyone should be able to register as an
> issuer, and the volume of usage of those issues credentials by verifiers
> can be tracked so that people can infer how trusted it is by the volume and
> diversity of who is using those verifiers.
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> For the medical industry I give the example of ABMS - The American Board
> of medical specialties vs NBPAS - The the national board of physicians and
> surgeons.
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> ABMS Was trusted for many many years, and only recently over the last 5 or
> 10 years has come under extreme scrutiny because they started moving the
> goal post on Practicing physicians and raising the cost and effort needed
> to stay accredited. (They have actually been brought up on charges for of
> racketeering)
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> NBPAS - has recently started to be accepted by the physician community and
> hospitals alike. Insurance companies will soon start to recognize it as as
> well.
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> In this example the instant that A new accreding body like NBPAS becomes
> available the founders of the accrediting body could add that body to the
> list. Initially it would go un-utilized, however as verifying bodies start
> accepting the new credentials the usage can be automatically tracked and
> registered under that particular accrediting body. As time went on and
> usage went up but accrediting body will gain more notoriety based on its
> actual usage.
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> I feel a governance structure like this is absolutely necessary because at
> minimum it gives a mechanism for the people to regulate the regulators.
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> Do any of the specifications support this kind of governance? I’d be
> curious to hear peoples thoughts on this.
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