Credential Issuance
Credential Issuance is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
THE-04 · TOP-005
Credential and Trust Exchange
Failures in credential issuance can expose people to identity fraud, unauthorised decisions, coerced data use, loss of access, unfair exclusion, surveillance and diminished human agency.
8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.
Credential Verification
Credential Verification is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Credential Revocation
Credential Revocation is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Selective Disclosure
Selective Disclosure is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Reusable Trust Profiles
Reusable Trust Profiles is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Verification Receipts
Verification Receipts is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Credential Interoperability
Credential Interoperability is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Trust Exchange Governance
Trust Exchange Governance is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within credential and trust exchange.
Stories from Credential and Trust Exchange
Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.
Credential Issuance
At the remote site, a plausible alert could stop production, while a missed alert could put a life at risk. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in credential issuance, especially where identity,
Read the full story →Credential Verification
By the third lesson, Mateo could see which students the new support helped and which students had simply learned to hide their confusion. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in credential verific
Read the full story →Credential Revocation
The headline dated five years from now called the programme a turning point. The smaller correction beneath it explained why that claim was premature. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in crede
Read the full story →Selective Disclosure
The system crossed the border in a day. Its assumptions about language, authority and trust did not travel nearly as well. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in selective disclosure, especially
Read the full story →Reusable Trust Profiles
At the remote site, a plausible alert could stop production, while a missed alert could put a life at risk. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in reusable trust profiles, especially where identi
Read the full story →Verification Receipts
Day 19, 16:40. Anika wrote one sentence in the margin of the protocol: “The improvement may not belong to the intervention.” Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in verification receipts, especial
Read the full story →Credential Interoperability
The first customer did not ask Maya for more features. They asked what would happen when the system was wrong. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in credential interoperability, especially where
Read the full story →Trust Exchange Governance
Keiko finished the task faster than anyone in the room and could not explain how the answer had been reached. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in trust exchange governance, especially where id
Read the full story →