Thanks Manu. I appreciate that. And thank you to others who have
responded privately. It seems that this segmentation resonates. If anyone
has a better way of naming the segments, I'm all ears!
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 9:37 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:
> 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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> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>
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