Rename repo to "digital-credentials"

WICG / digital-credentials

Digital Credentials, like driver's licenses

https://wicg.github.io/digital-credentials/

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Rename repo to "digital-credentials" #55

Closed marcoscaceres closed 9 months ago

marcoscaceres commented 9 months ago

Given that we found that "identity credentials" had been squatted by another spec (fedcm maybe?), can we rename this repo to "digital-credentials"?

The proposal talks about "Digital Credential".

samuelgoto commented 9 months ago

"identity credentials" had been squatted by another spec (fedcm maybe?),

I wouldn't call it squatting, but yes, FedCM is built on top of the IdentityCredential type, and Chrome designed IdentityCredential to extend beyond federation (this should give you an idea of the use cases we are actively working on), hence the name and why we initially proposed this.

an we rename this repo to "digital-credentials"?

I personally really like "Digital Credentials": it maps well to how the OpenID Foundation is organizing themselves to develop the OpenID4VP specs under the Digital Credentials Working Group.

So, +1 from my side.

TallTed commented 9 months ago

Digital Credentials is very generic. I think it's too generic for this work, whether at W3C or OpenIDF.

I think Identity Credentials is also too generic, as it could apply to physical passports as well as to mDLs.

I suggest Digital Identity Credentials, even though it may also collide with similar work elsewhere unless W3C is prepended (which would not be the worst thing, imho). A reasonable abbreviation could then be any of DIC, DIDC, W3DIC, W3DIDC, W3CDIC, W3CDIDC....

marcoscaceres commented 9 months ago

@samuelgoto wrote:

I wouldn't call it squatting,

Apologies, it was a poor word choice.

@TallTed, as I see it, there are multiple motivating factors for the change:

the repository's name is for the community (primarily CG members, eventually some WG) to easily find the work. I personally keep getting confused trying to find the thing and I'm trying to stop typing "identity-credential".

Secondly, yes, there is the larger question of scope of the work:

requesting an digital identity credential.
The resulting "digital credential" (DigitalCredential).

On the second point, I'd like to keep the generic "Digital Credential" because the DigitalCredential interface should be a generic platform primitive that represents any "digital credential" (we will be building up to this over the next few months or year(s)).

As for the W3C part, this is not yet a "W3C" thing... its a "WICG" thing, which is denoted by the "WICG/" org... eventually we will move this to "W3C/digital-credential".

marcoscaceres commented 9 months ago

As agreed to on the call, renamed the repo to "digital-credentials".

We can continue the more interesting questions around representing DigitalCredentials (as well as overlap with FedCM) as part of the spec development process and other issues.