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Verifiable Credentials Use Cases
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New user/issuer task - Provide Claim #141

Open RieksJ opened 1 year ago

RieksJ commented 1 year ago

Requirement: issuers MUST be able to (sovereignly, autonomously) determine what kinds of claims they will issue to what holders, under what conditions this is done, and specify constraints regarding the contents of the claims they issue to such holders.

Motivation: there are many real-world situations in which this requirement applies, and we need to be able to mimic this for claims as well. For example,

jandrieu commented 8 months ago

@RieksJ First, apologies for the delay responding.

It's not clear that provide claim is any different than issue claim. "It MUST be possible for any entity to issue a verifiable credential."

To the editors' reading, issuance is clearly an action that happens under the issuer's authority. The issuing entity gets to issue; there is nothing implying that they lose the ability to decide when to issue what to whom.