W3C Verifiable Credentials are better than JOSE because they support decentralization and semantic interoperability, in addition to digital signatures over JSON.
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I view those as orthogonal requirements and honestly, it’s my biggest reservation that I need to accept the ‘whole package.’
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@trbouma Are you wanting to verify things that are more in the scope of private namespaces? JSON-LD and Semantic Interoperability is vital to the success of the knowledge of what’s being verified. Hence the Knowledge Graph.
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Two separate problems. Problem 1 is about intention of the actors. Problem 2 is about semantics of the information. I’m not discounting either, but if we are to work at global scale, they need to be solved as independent problems,
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JOSE supports authenticity and intention, and is used to power most consumer and enterprise identity. 44% of all websites rely on JSON-LD. Both problems have been solved independently. W3C Verifiable Credentials leverage the best solutions for both problems.
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That's quite a claim. Are you talking about the JSON-LD that Google recommends people publish for their rich snippets and such? Because I guarantee you about 99.9% of that is treating it as plain JSON.
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Replying to @OR13b @trbouma @mfosterio
yeah my point stands. The vast majority of publishers publishing JSON-LD on their websites for Google to consume care approximately 0% about the LD part of the JSON-LD, and frankly care about 1% about the JSON part. They just want Google to read the website.

Nov 5, 2022 · 11:34 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @trbouma @mfosterio
Your point is it's easy to adopt JSON-LD without understanding its value, and a lot of people have done this?... Are you saying it's a bad thing people adopt things they don't understand? If you're are at IETF let's chat IRL.
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I'm saying the LD is irrelevant when most publishers and consumers are ignoring it. It's great the JSON-LD looks mostly like JSON, but IMO the LD part adds very little value. fwiw I was able to implement vaccine QR code VCs without dealing with the LD part too!
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