Re: Request to add a profile parameter to +jwt and +sd-jwt

An afterthought... we could also punt on the impact of multiple suffixes by
following the convention activity pub used:

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#media-type

application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"

For W3C Verifiable Credentials that could be:

application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials"

Noting that W3C already supports https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2

Regards,

OS

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:55 AM Orie Steele <orie@transmute.industries>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There was a request to add media type parameters to application/sd-jwt
> and +sd-jwt made here:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/vc-jose-cose/issues/184#issuecomment-1827973403
>
> TLDR; TallTed believes that the convention in the JWT BCP is not correct:
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8725#name-use-explicit-typing
>
> So instead of seeing:
>
> application/secevent+jwt
>
> We should be seeing:
>
> application/jwt; profile=secevent
>
> This is a general form of the challenges associated with using multiple
> structured suffixes with JWTs.
>
> See these related drafts:
>
> -
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt-06#name-structured-syntax-suffix-re
> -
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-mediaman-suffixes-06#section-2.3
>
> Note that the change controller for `application/vc+...` would be the W3C
> per the latest draft language in draft-ietf-mediaman-suffixes-06.
>
> The W3C could then reject any attempts to register
> `application/vc+ld+json+sd-jwt` or `application/vc+sd-jwt` or
> `application/vc+jwp` in the future.
>
> If instead we used a meda type parameter to signal profiles... instead of
> suffixes, the change controller rules from multiple suffixes would not
> apply.
>
> Regards,
>
> OS
>
>
> --
>
>
> ORIE STEELE
> Chief Technology Officer
> www.transmute.industries
>
> <https://transmute.industries>
>


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