Episode 101 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: The Future of Education & Workforce Credentials
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Kerri Lemoie, PhD, Director - MIT, Digital Credentials Consortium
- Guest: Dmitri Zagidulin, Senior Software Engineer/Team Lead in decentralized systems, identity, authentication
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Description
The Digital Credentials Consortium ("DCC") is advancing the use and understanding of privacy-enhanced, portable, verifiable digital credentials in Higher Education through open source technology development and leadership, research, and advocacy. Kerri Lemoie and Dmitri Zagidulin will explain the work of the DCC, its impact on education and workforce digital credentials, and discuss what they see as the future of digital identity and education metadata standards.
Homework
- https://digitalcredentials.mit.edu/
- https://wiki.dcconsortium.org/
- https://github.com/digitalcredentials
Takeaways
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⚡ The idea is that educational credentials will be issued to a wallet, like other types of verifiable credentials.
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⚡ Federations are needed to create trust between Issuers, Verifiers, and wallet vendors. InCommon and EduGain have already formed federations for the purpose of SSO that include many of the issuers. But it's unlcear if there is overlap between the websites that rely on existing SSO federations, and the RP's that would want to verify issued credentials. Verification of educational credentials also seems out of scope for these existing federations, although they could change that.
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⚡ Wallets need to be trusted in order to make a binding between the issuer and the person presenting the credential. A Verifier in the real world can look at the plastic credentials photo of the person to validate the binding. With electronic presentation, the risk of fraud is higher, and a weak wallet binding would probably not be acceptable for any high value transaction, like hiring a person or issuing a benefit.
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⚡ The domain of identity systems based on Verifiable Credentials is ripe for academic reasearch, given all the challenges that exist before such a system would enjoy network economies of scale.