- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:43:04 -0400
- To: Elias Balafoutis <ebalafoutis@atypon.com>
- Cc: "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com>, "public-vc-wg@w3.org" <public-vc-wg@w3.org>
On 09/11/2017 10:25 AM, Elias Balafoutis wrote: > I am still into the process of trying to understand the DID/VC specs > in more depth but my current understanding is that VCs may be used > to verify the affiliation of a user with an organization, with > organizations issuing (and maintaining) VCs for their users, skipping > traditional authentication via username/password and hence IdP > discovery altogether. Yes, your understanding is correct. That's one of the purposes for the Verifiable Claims work and it sounds like a perfect fit. The only downside is that all of this technology is still in development (but some companies, such as ours, are deploying it into production). There is polyfill code and upgrade paths that enable people to deploy this technology soon, much before it's standardized in the browser. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Rebalancing How the Web is Built http://manu.sporny.org/2016/rebalancing/
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