Re: Wallet segmentation question for our LER Ecosystem SmartReport

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:20 PM Ian Davidson <ian@idatafy.com> wrote:
> Kate's suggestion was to call the category "Credential Management" and then have some of the sub-categories described as wallets.

Yes, IMHO, that is exactly the right level of abstraction for this
class of tools.

We've struggled in non-EDU market verticals to explain that "Your
app/website can provide credential management functionality." only to
be met with "Yeah, but our app/website isn't a digital wallet." -- I
think we've leaned into the "digital wallet" terminology too heavily
over the past several years. It was useful to get people to understand
use cases that had an analog to a physical wallet, but is a
challenging analogy when you have something that doesn't necessarily
fit into a physical wallet (like an OpenBadge or LER).

Additionally, the capability that W3C VCs can be printed on a piece of
paper or embedded in a PDF as a verifiable QR Code further strains the
"digital wallet" analogy.

We do call these things "Credential Repositories" in the current spec:

https://w3c.github.io/vc-data-model/#dfn-credential-repositories

... but I like "credential manager" better. Should we update the term
to something like "credential manager" or "credential management
software" in the current specification? It would be a fairly easy
editorial change.

"Credential Management" applications, websites, and tooling feels like
a good direction.

-- manu

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

Received on Tuesday, 31 December 2024 15:37:43 UTC