RWOT Holder Binding paper got published

Dear all,

Since we had a number of issues and lots of discussions on holder binding in
the last couple of months, we wrote a RWOT paper and it got published
finally. I'm sharing this already since it is relevant to upcoming
discussions on holder binding in W3C.

IDENTIFIER BINDING: DEFINING THE CORE OF HOLDER BINDING
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https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/final-documents/identifier-
binding.pdf
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https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/final-documents/identifier-
binding.md

by Paul Bastian, Rieks Joosten, Zaïda Rivai, Oliver Terbu, Snorre Lothar
von Gohren Edwin, Antonio Antonino, Nikos Fotiou, Stephen Curran, and
Ahamed Azeem

Lead author: Oliver Terbu

Over the last year(s), various issues have been raised that revolve around
what has been called 'holder binding'. The term 'holder binding' itself
isn't clearly defined, and is in fact quite contentious. This paper seeks
to come to grips with this discussion. Our first contribution is the
specification of a terminology, which is intended to help readers
understand what we mean to say without requiring them to make assumptions
about such meanings (as is often the case in discussions about 'holder
binding'). Our second contribution is an analysis of a (fictitious)
use-case that suggests that verifiers typically do not need to know who the
holder is (i.e. who has presented the claims to be verified). This analysis
shows that verifiers need capabilities to (a) learn which entity is the
subject of a particular claim, and (b) to know whether or not two subject
identifiers refer to the same entity or to different entities. Also, they
may need assurances regarding the party on whose behalf the component that
has electronically presented the claims, has been using those capabilities.
Our third contribution is a proposal for the syntax and semantics of a new
property that can be used in (different parts of) VCs/VPs, that will
provide verifiers with such capabilities.

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Thanks,
Oliver