Re: [EXT] Work item suggestion: VC-ACDC

As an informal show of additional support for the work I wanted to provide additional testimonials from people outside the W3C but whom are actively working with the technology.

Jason Colburne / Head of Engineering / Qui Identity
Using ACDCs and KERI for our DKMI in a consumer application and infrastructure for managing decentralized identity that is currently in development. Interop would be great.

Cole Davis / Founder/ CEO / Switchchord 
Our copyright management and legal contracting products use both W3C DID/VC implementations and KERI-based AID and ACDC implementations. The vLEI gives us an enterprise root of trust from which we can authenticate certain legal contracting workflows. ACDCs also have helpful emergent properties when modeling legal contracts as credentials, particularly with graduated disclosure and the ability to “chain” contractual provisions in a complex legal workflow.


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On 3/13/23, 6:06 PM, "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

    On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:39 PM Kevin Griffin <Kevin.Griffin@gleif.org> wrote:
    > DRAFT PROPOSAL: Adopt the W3C vc-acdc transformation specification with the acknowledgement that the underlying normative references will need to progress to Last Call in IETF Working Groups (or other equivalent) before the vc-acdc specification can progress to W3C Candidate Recommendation which would include normative references to the KERI, ACDC and CESR specifications.

    Digital Bazaar would support the proposal above. We would not be able
    to contribute much other than a review here or there.

    The changes from the previous proposal that shifts our vote in the
    positive direction are:

    * The resolutions made at the Miami VCWG meeting created a bigger
    tent, and this is exactly the sort of thing that was expected to
    happen as a result.

    * The technical solution proposed in VC-ACDC is effectively what
    VC-JWT does, so it makes sense to accept it on those terms.

    * There is now a dependency on the KERI/ACDC/CESR work progressing at
    IETF before the VCWG were to move VC-ACDC further down the standards
    track.

    * It's now clear (to us) that the work has been incubated,
    implemented, and deployed in a limited capacity; this isn't a paper
    prototype of a potential technology.

    * Multiple people, who have a history of producing specifications,
    have stepped forward to do work on the specification.

    * A transformation-only specification is not a huge addition of work
    for the group.

    In short, it feels like pulling this work in before feature freeze is
    a low-risk activity. If things don't progress at an accepted pace at
    IETF, then the VCWG is not obligated to move the work any further than
    a Working Draft. If things go well at IETF, then we will have another
    example of a "big tent" approach to VCs that is aligned with the way
    that VC-JWT seems to be moving (depending on transformation from an
    otherwise incompatible data format to the base media type and data
    model in the VC specification).

    -- manu

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