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VC Spec Enhancement Strategy Proposal

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · 2022-04-04 · checked 2026-10-15

A position paper on strategy for the W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC) specification, arguing that Linked Data (JSON-LD/RDF) is a barrier to VC adoption and that a JSON Schema based VC specification with self-addressing identifiers (SAIDs) should be the primary path, with sections on semantic interoperability, labeled property graphs, immutable schemas and canonicalization. For participants in credential standards work.

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