Approach to Bottom-Up Standardization of Claim Content Structures

Approach to Bottom-Up Standardization of Claim Content Structures

Wednesday 7G

Convener: Marton Csernai

Notes-taker(s): Marton Csernai

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

A general takeaway from our session was that the topic of Standardization of Claim Content Structures might be too early in the IIW community but it will probably become relevant in the future. 

Remarks:

Additionally to claim contents, it would make sense to include other aspects of the credential creation process into the proposed standardization mechanisms. For example, it is really important for banks and insurance companies how and based on which standard process or regulation an attestation (validation of the identity claim) has been done during the KYC (Know Your Customer) process. For example an attester could state that the credential creation process adhered to a specific version of the NIST Digital Identity Guidelines (https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-63/3/final). A system like KILT could do this by the attester putting self-attested claims into the credentials as legitimations, stating which protocol was used during the creation of the attestation.

 

The discussion about standardization started already in the DIF Credential Manifest (https://github.com/decentralized-identity/credential-manifest/blob/master/explainer.md).