Re: When Technical Standards Meet Geopolitical Reality

Hardware is incapable of fulfilling the role of issuer.

This remains an area where the VC spec incorrectly states that any "entity"
can fulfill a role.

The role fundamentally gives in the legal culpability for the issuance. A
device cannot have legal culpability. A legal person (human or
incorporated) can.

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 1:06 PM David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@truetrust.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> On 11/08/2025 20:32, Daniel Hardman wrote:
>
> I think the issuer of this verifiable data must be one or more individual
> human beings.
>
> I think the issuer could be a tamperproof piece of hardware with its own
> private key that could read a biometric of a human, along with liveness
> testing, and assert that the entity that just provided the biometric to it,
> is a live human being.
>
> Kind regards
>
> David
>