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Clarify why issuers might be different for VCs and BSLs.
Co-authored-by: Ted Thibodeau Jr <[email protected]>
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The status list is expressed inside a [=verifiable credential=] in order to
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enable a [=holder=] to provide it to a [=verifier=] directly. This mechanism,
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enable a [=holder=] to provide it directly to a [=verifier=]. This mechanism,
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sometimes called "certificate stapling", increases privacy for the [=holder=] by
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ensuring that the [=verifier=] does not need to contact the [=issuer=] to
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retrieve the status list. Still, a [=verifier=] might choose to ignore the
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[=Issuers=] and [=verifiers=] are advised that the [=issuer=] of a
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[=verifiable credential=] and the [=issuer=] of an associated
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`BitstringStatusListCredential` might not be the same. There are technical,
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legal, institutional, and political reasons that might make it appropriate
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to separate the authority over the original credential from the authority to
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revoke such a credential. Therefore, the `issuer` value of a <a>verifiable
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credential</a> containing a `BitstringStatusListEntry` MAY be different from
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the `issuer` value of a `BitstringStatusListCredential`.
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legal, institutional, political, and other reasons that might make it
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appropriate to separate the authority over the original credential from the
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authority to revoke, or otherwise change the status of, such a credential.
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Therefore, the `issuer` value of a [=verifiable credential=] containing a
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`BitstringStatusListEntry` MAY be different from the `issuer` value of a
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`BitstringStatusListCredential`.
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<p class="issue atrisk" title="TTL conflicts with `validUntil`">

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