{"id":2679,"date":"2025-05-09T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:56:48","slug":"so-you-want-to-use-digital-credentials-youre-now-facing-a-myriad-of-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"So you want to use Digital Credentials? You\u2019re now facing a myriad of choices!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EIC<\/span>I gave the keynote talk So you want to use Digital Credentials? You\u2019re now facing a myriad of choices!<\/a> at EIC 2025<\/a>. I opened by describing engineering choices – credential formats (W3C VCs, ISO mDOCs, SD-JWTs, SD-CWTs, JWPs, X.509 Certificates), issuance and presentation mechanisms (bespoke and standards-based, in-person and remote), mechanisms for choosing them (query languages, user interfaces), and trust establishment mechanisms (trust lists, certificates, and federation).<\/p>\n

I then upped the ante by talking about the criticality of usability, the challenges of building ecosystems (something Andrew Nash<\/a> first explained to me most of two decades ago!), and how digital credentials are not an end in and of themselves; they’re a tool to help us solve real-world problems. And of course, I closed by coming back to my theme Standards are About Making Choices<\/a>, urging us to come together and make the right choices to enable interoperable use of digital credentials in ways that benefit people worldwide.<\/p>\n

View my slides as PowerPoint<\/a> or PDF<\/a>. I’ll also post a link to the video of the presentation here once Kuppinger Cole posts it.<\/p>\n

\"EIC<\/p>\n

\"Thought<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/p>\n

\"Standards<\/p>\n

\"Thank<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave the keynote talk So you want to use Digital Credentials? You\u2019re now facing a myriad of choices! at EIC 2025. I opened by describing engineering choices – credential formats (W3C VCs, ISO mDOCs, SD-JWTs, SD-CWTs, JWPs, X.509 Certificates), issuance and presentation mechanisms (bespoke and standards-based, in-person and remote), mechanisms for choosing them (query […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,22,7,32,11,27,14,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbor","category-claims","category-events","category-federation","category-ietf","category-interoperability","category-json","category-openid","category-privacy","category-specifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}