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# trustoverip/tswg-acdc-specification-archived

The earlier Trust over IP repository of the Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) draft (draft-ssmith-acdc), with its issue history: compact forms, selective disclosure, the M-ary operators, and a payload attribute for using ACDCs as a proof for W3C credentials. Superseded by the current ACDC specification repository.

Labels: reading level Normative; evidence normative (a specification or a requirement in one).
Source: https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-acdc-specification-archived (license unclear).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.