Musings of a Trust Architect: On Being the Fifteenth Standard

Often, the first thing that I hear when I describe Gordian Envelope is that we already have too many credential formats. They’re right. We’ve got JWT, SD-JWT, JWE, COSE, mDoc, JSON-LD VCs, AnonCreds, BBS+ presentations, and at least five more depending on which working group is awake this quarter. XKCD 927, “The 15th Standard”, is the obligatory citation, and it lands. So I want to start with the…