Smart Credentals

Full Title

Authors

• Kim Cameron
• Adam Lemmon

Goals

• RP trust of issuers
• Trust framework for credential issuers
• Help solve the Nascar and Alien-Tech problems for RPs

Terminology

• Smart Credential Provider (“SCP”): The entity that hosts and maintains the Smart Credential Definition and functions as an intermediary providing query and discovery capabilities for Holders, Wallets and RPs. Addressable by *public URL and https certificate.
• Smart Credential Definition (“SCD”): The definition for a Smart Credential; a name, information about the credential, list of trusted issuers and optionally a list of trusted wallets and other metadata. Together this publishes information about the trust framework for this Smart Credential. The SCD is accessible at the URL of the SCP.
• Smart Verifiable Credential (“SVC”): A W3C Verifiable Credential which contains a SCP URL within its type array.

References

• Working document