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In the same W3C CCG thread, Daniel Hardman made this point:

I feel like decentralization is running into a difficult tension here: we want to democratize issuance (anyone can do it), but we want to trust a limited set of issuers (or at least, a limited set on any given topic). Anybody can create a COVID test result credential, but we only want to accept them if they were issued by a lab that we have reason to trust. Etc...

One solution to this problem is registries: list trusted sources and have your software check whether the issuer is on approved/accredited list by querying. Of course this re-centralizes around the oracle.

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