Other people are thinking the same thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442536

https://twitter.com/mlinksva/status/657681758750511105

Mike Linksvayer at 2015-10-24T17:05:11Z

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Hadn't heard of OC before, eager to read about it now!

Mike Linksvayer at 2015-10-24T17:27:58Z

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Manu Sporny's videos, as usual, are a very nice introduction:

• Credentials on the web
• Linked data signatures

Some of this grows out of the needs of the web payments group, which has some of the same people. The credentials specs have not totally solidified, but are getting there, and are growing out of some real implementations that Digital Bazaar are working on.

By the way, the "linked data signatures" bit has a small amount of controversy in "why not JOSE"? It's something I'm in the middle of reading up on and trying to understand.

At the very least, I think the work coming out of the credentials group may be a good path forward for the kind of future we're trying to build in MediaGoblin and related work.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-10-24T17:34:32Z

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