> > In summary, together these specs enable a user to use her own identifier > at the RP instead of the one provided by the third party IdP, and to > present identity credentials without Verifier directly talking to the > Issuer - this does sound like “SSI”, doesn’t it? > Thank you for this crisp distillation, Kristina. I agree that these are desirable qualities that are necessary for SSI. My concern is that they are not sufficient, because they don't allow reciprocity. Although the user can prove things in a good way to the RP, the RP doesn't play by the same rules. It puts us in a situation like Orwell's *Animal Farm*: all of us are equal -- but some of us (institutions) are more equal than others (people). That's not sovereignty; it is a dangerous substitute for it.
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