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w3c / vc-bitstring-status-list

A privacy-preserving mechanism to publish status information for Verifiable Credentials.
https://w3c.github.io/vc-bitstring-status-list/
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Clarification on statusListIndex type #177

Closed robdefeo closed 1 month ago

robdefeo commented 1 month ago

The spec indicates that statusListIndex is an integer. https://github.com/w3c/vc-bitstring-status-list/blob/47e190054247139583bfe2cebdf7d0e6c152bdb7/index.html#L587-L592

However the examples show it as a string, https://github.com/w3c/vc-bitstring-status-list/blob/47e190054247139583bfe2cebdf7d0e6c152bdb7/index.html#L696

There is an important difference when it comes to creating the verification data

_:c14n1 <https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/status#statusListIndex> "94567"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer> .

vs

_:c14n1 <https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/status#statusListIndex> "94567" .

Acceptance criteria is confirming the correct behaviour and correcting the text or the examples.

PatStLouis commented 1 month ago

The spec specifies that this integer is expressed as a string in base 10. If you feel this should be worded differently feel free to propose an alternate wording here for feedback.

The statusListIndex property MUST be an arbitrary size integer greater than or equal to 0, expressed as a string in base 10.

robdefeo commented 1 month ago

You are correct, I miss-read/missed that part of the spec. On re-reading the spec is clear.

Thanks @PatStLouis for the graceful explanation.