Identity/Credentials: 3 concrete next steps

If you want to see Identity/Credentials work happen for payments, you
will want to pay very close attention to this email.

One of the outcomes from the Web Payments face-to-face was to take
Credentials out of the critical path for version 1. One of the reasons
for this was a "lack of organizations showing an interest in Identity /
Credentials from a payments perspective".

I am currently trying to compile a list of organizations that do think
Identity and Credentials should be worked on /in parallel to/ the Web
Payments work. If you think this should happen, please make sure you
fill out the questionnaire (5 minutes) below.

The proposal is to officially charter a group that details how a
credential is issued, stored, and retrieved via the Web. The charter
will specifically not define what goes inside the credential, instead
focusing on 1) the container format for a credential, and 2) the
protocol for sending and receiving credentials.

Here is an executive summary of the Credentials work:

http://tinyurl.com/creds-summary

If your organization may want to support this work, please make your
voice heard by filling out this poll:

http://tinyurl.com/creds-poll

So, that's the first step. The next step will be explaining the
rationale of why this initiative is different from the other initiatives
in the space and what W3C can bring to the table. The last step will be
creating a charter and running it by W3M and the membership.

However, in order to get to steps #2 and #3, we need to do step #1. We
need to see if organizations are supportive of a parallel
Identity/Credentials initiative. In order to do that, you'll have to
fill out the poll above.

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice
https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/

Received on Friday, 3 July 2015 18:43:11 UTC