Re: Credentials Task Force proposal

On Friday, November 6, 2015, Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:
>
> Right. Macaroons are about authentication as "bearer credentials"
> typically are.


Macaroons are a nuanced idea. They can act as bearer credentials but also
support confinement via contextual caveats.


> I meant credentials that refer to identification, which I
> believe to be the primary focus of the work the task force is exploring.


Again, Macaroons are a nuanced idea. The features of third party caveats
and discharge macaroons are applicable to privacy-preserving identity
providers.


> We could use these credentials in conjunction with macaroon caveats
> (which seems to be one of the primary use cases for caveats). In other
> words, these technologies can complement each other (which is what I
> believe you were alluding to, so we're in agreement).


I would argue the same problems can be solved by Macaroons alone, but it
seems this WG is looking more for a meta-standard than a one-size-fits-all
solution to bless.




-- 
Tony Arcieri