Re: [Secdispatch] [saag] Interest COVID-19 'passport' standardization?

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 30 July 2021 21:23 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:23:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Secdispatch] [saag] Interest COVID-19 'passport' standardization?
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:19 PM Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:

> The knowledge about the virus and the responses to it are evolving
> very quickly, and so the flexibility of W3C Verifiable Credentials
> comes in very handy here, as it is built on semantic web standards
> built on top of first order logic, hypergraphs, and designed for
> decentralisation, and evolvability.
>

I don't really agree with this claim. Some of the proposals here use
VC and some do not, but they all seem roughly equally capable and
flexible to me.

-Ekr





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