Re: Verifiable Claims Terminology - votes are in

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 06/19/2016 08:05 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:
> > On 06/19/2016 06:50 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote:
> >> Claim - aka verifiable claim - a signed statement by an entity about
> >>  another entity (or itself) Entity Credential -- A collection of
> >> claims (per the charter) Identity Profile -- A collection of
> >> credentials (per the terminology poll)
> >
> > The great thing about voting is that everyone gets to participate.
> >
> > The bad thing about voting is that sometimes the outcome of the votes
> > are a bit wonky.
> >
> > In this case, the group decided on Entity Credential and Identity
> Profile.
> >
> >>From an editorial (and marketing) standpoint, these choices are strange.
> >
> > We should have picked either:
> >
> > 1. Entity Credential and Entity Profile, OR
> > 2. Identity Credential and Identity Profile
> >
> > A "X Credential" contains a set of claims from the same issuer.
> > A "X Profile" contains a set of "X Credential"s (not necessarily from
> > the same Issuer).
> >
> > The latter contains the former, so it's strange that we chose different
> > names when the thing they're describing is the same type of thing.
> >
> > We don't have to revisit this anytime in the next month or so, but I'm
> > just raising this to see if anyone else felt this cognitive dissonance
> > when they saw the results of the poll.
>

Yes, cognitive dissonance is also what I experienced, knowing the edits I
would need to make to the data model spec.


>
> Yes. At some point we should reconcile the terms. "X Credential"
> should go along with "X Profile", but the poll didn't account for that
> and we ended up getting "X Credential" and "Y Profile".
>
> Agreed.  But Later :)

>
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> Dave Longley
> CTO
> Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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