- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:07:27 -0500
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
On 1/3/22 4:03 PM, Adrian Gropper wrote: > I hope DHS policy acknowledges the importance of separation of possession > from consent and does not take away a subject's right to decide whether > control of a VC can be exercised independently of possession. Even if DHS > disagrees, it's still imperative that their reasoning and the conversation > about this be carried out in a thorough and public fashion in order to > build public confidence in digital credentials at scale. Adrian, I'm going to provide some input that is to be interpreted as "general thoughts" and not as necessarily applying to the PRC use case. Anil has already explained that, in it's modern form, paper-based delegation exists today, has existed for many decades, and will continue to exist even when digital credentials become an option. To add to that, you can do programmatic delegation with all of the APIs that are being developed in CCG using ZCAPs (or GNAP, or OAuth). A Holder can delegate access to key material (WebKMS), they can delegate access to Issuer infrastructure that they control (VC-API), they can delegate access to Verifier infrastructure that they control (VC-API), and they can delegate access to Holder infrastructure that they control (VC-API). The question of how one does programmatic delegation is orthogonal and layered, as it should be. However, to get to a global standard for programmatic delegation, we need to put the next layer in place, which is the Data Integrity work in the W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0 Working Group. : https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/w3c/vc-wg-charter/pull/37.html#deliverables All that to say, we're working towards new global standards for programmatic delegation (ZCAPs, GNAP), and supporting programmatic delegation through OAuth2 today. If you want to do paper-based delegation, that will continue to be possible for the foreseeable future for Issuers that provide paper-based credentials. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. News: Digital Bazaar Announces New Case Studies (2021) https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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