Re: Hello world, meet American driver’s licenses

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM Kalin NICOLOV <kalin.nicolov@gmail.com> wrote:
> True, Steve, Chris and Timothy are all involved in the best way possible - why is this not happening more often in other states though?

Having engaged with other states on these topics, one of the reasons
it's not happening there is because they don't have access to people
like Steve, Chris, and Timothy at the legislative level. Many of these
legislators also have "bigger" problems that they're dealing with
(political unrest, healthcare crises, budget crises, etc.).

There is a huge knowledge gap in state legislatures and even in their
state information technology divisions when it comes to good policy
wrt. digital credentials. As many of the folks on this mailing list
that are engaged with these governments, large and small, are aware...
we spend a lot of our time educating these policy makers and agencies
on how to responsibly deploy these technologies.

To further complicate matters, some vendors have higher tolerances for
privacy and security risks than other vendors... some vendors disagree
with what is and is not acceptable... and sometimes, the budget (or
political appetite) just isn't there to do a more thorough job.

Largely, this is an education challenge; I think we underestimate just
how much specialized knowledge we have in communities like these and
how long it takes for that knowledge to filter out into the minds of
decision makers. It can take decades, especially when you have
disagreements over things like whether or not server retrieval is a
feature worth keeping.

... which is why articles like the one Kim wrote are so important.
They educate beyond this community and that is desperately needed to
scale digital credential technology to the masses.

-- manu

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Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
https://www.digitalbazaar.com/

Received on Thursday, 26 June 2025 19:12:54 UTC