Re: Verifiable Credentials with COSE_Sign1

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 5:09 PM Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com> wrote:
> As extensively discussed in the special topic calls, an "open world model" is not a interoperability requirement and is not a deliverable in our charter.  We can (and I believe will) do better than that.

The specification has asserted that it supports an "open world model" from v1.0:

https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#extensibility

The VCWG has repeatedly achieved consensus on that during the VC 1.0 work.

Here is the decision from April 2019 when what you are stating above
was raised (by Microsoft) the first time, discussed by the WG, and a
consensus position to support open world was made:

https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/483#issuecomment-482910429

and the resulting text, that achieved WG consensus:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/REC-vc-data-model-20191119/#extensibility

and then again in the VC 1.1 work:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2022/REC-vc-data-model-20220303/#extensibility

Asserting the opposite of what the consensus position has been in the
group for years doesn't make it true.

-- manu

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Received on Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:34:12 UTC