w3c-ccg / verifiable-issuers-verifiers

Draft specification for Verifiable Issuers and Verifiers
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/verifiable-issuers-verifiers/
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Document danger of first mover advantages #2

Open msporny opened 1 year ago

msporny commented 1 year ago

Add an entry to the Security Considerations section that highlights inadvertent "first mover" advantages of one party's trust anchors overwhelming others because they published first. What happens when an actor publishes a useful list and then gets most of the ecosystem to use that list and then uses their control over the list to block new entrants into the market?