- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:50:27 -0500
- To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
The oldest specification incubated by the Credentials CG is now, FINALLY, after more than 10 years, an IETF RFC! RFC 9421 is a way to make sure that people can't mess with a message you want to send to a server, and a way for the server to tell if the message really came from you. You can use DIDs (or other types of keys) to digitally sign these messages and there are other specifications that this group is incubating, like Authorization Capabilities (ZCAPs), that make use of this specification. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9421.html Huge shout out to Justin Richer (Bespoke Engineering) and Annabelle Backman (Amazon) for making it happen. All credit goes to them for getting it through the IETF process, which took 4 years; Annabelle for bringing the spec in line with more modern HTTP features and Justin who worked tirelessly over the last three years to take it across the line... and by "taking it across the line", I mean, running almost the entire length of the field AND THEN taking it across the line. :) Congrats to all involved... that was a ridiculously long journey. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
Received on Wednesday, 14 February 2024 23:51:10 UTC