Rather than engage in endless debate, it's easier/more expedient to embrace, by reference, the W3C VC2 specification as a sub-specification of the InterCredential spec ...an embrace-and-extend model ...and let the decentralized systems developer marketplace decide.
After the inclusion of the 4-Corner Credential Interoperability Model into the InterCredential ARM, the W3C VC2 spec becomes a niche layer/specification. See the green box in the diagram below.
Michael Herman
Web 7.0
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-----Original Message-----
From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2023 11:46 AM
To: public-credentials@w3.org
Subject: Re: Layering/Composability of Verifiable Credentials (was: Re: Market Adoption of VCs by Fortune 500s (was: Re: DHS Verifier Confidence/Assurance Level Expectation/Treatment of non-publicly defined Vocabulary/Terminology -- by using @vocab))
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 4:58 PM Nate Otto <nate@ottonomy.net<mailto:nate@ottonomy.net>> wrote:
> Cheers! I hope you have a good time in the community people here have spent the last decade building, and I hope you find great collaborators for the pieces of credentials-related work you want to contribute to.
Thank you, Nate -- that was wonderfully written! I found myself nodding in agreement as I read through your response.
Michael, does Nate get it? He seems to have addressed all of your questions/statements?
-- manu
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