RE: Verifiable Claims/DID User Needs and Use cases

To the RQTF

Apologies for being a little late to the conversation -I'm still travelling with the family now in Thailand, but have been spending the week considering the issues. 

As part of this, I've been considering the challenges faced by people with disabilities in trying to get verified credentials in the physical world, and then considering how it may relate to an equivalent in the online context.

Doing a bit of research, it seems there are a few main issues with identifiable credentials which can potentially be resolved online: 

1) Creating an identifiable credential, i.e. drivers license, passport, ID et c
2) Certifying an existing identifiable credential
3) Using multiple verifiable credentials to obtain another, e.g. using passport to open a bank account or get a drivers licence; and
4) Preventing identity theft of said credentials 

After reading through all the W3C documents and e-mail thread I'll admit that my knowledge is still a bit limited in this space, but where one of the challenges may be for people with disabilities at the moment is trying to initially create an identifiable credential in the first place, especially if the creation of that credential relies on physical world information. Is the digitisation of physical credentials in scope?  

Apologies if this is too much of a tangent, but I’m thinking of the challenges in having to currently set up an online account with an organisation at requires inaccessible scanned PDFs of qualifications, government ID cards, finding an appropriate person  to certify documents etc. I appreciate the endgame here is that none of these things would be necessary if identified credentials were effective and decentralised applications continue to evolve, but the logistics in getting to that point may require accessibility guidance for organisations unindividuals.  

Scott. 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshue O Connor <joconnor@w3.org> 
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2020 5:38 PM
To: RQTF <public-rqtf@w3.org>
Subject: Verifiable Claims/DID User Needs and Use cases

Hi all,

For me, while looking at the Verifiable Claims/DID specs with the view of thinking of user needs/use cases, as they relate to the needs of people with disabilities a question that comes to mind is why are VerClaims/DID user needs/cases, really any different from any secure, anonymous/private data transfer and verification requirements?

The more I read about it I'm thinking that many of the issues around trust and the mechanisms to support them are pretty generic and broadly applicable to everyone.

I'm happy to tease this out, thoughts?

Josh
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Emerging Web Technology Specialist/Accessibility (WAI/W3C)

Received on Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:15:34 UTC