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Expand Up @@ -436,13 +436,20 @@ <h3>Use Cases and Requirements</h3>
<!-- requirement list start -->
<ul>
<li>
<li>
<a>Credentials</a> represent statements made by an <a>issuer</a>.
</li>
<a>Verifiable credentials</a> represent statements made by an <a>issuer</a> in
a tamper-evident and privacy-respecting manner.
</li>
<li>
<a>Holders</a> assemble collections of <a>verifiable credentials</a> from
different <a>issuers</a> into a single artifact, a
<a>verifiable presentation</a>.
<a>Holders</a> assemble collections of <a>credentials</a> and/or
<a>verifiable credentials</a> from different <a>issuers</a> into a single
artifact, a <a>presentation</a>.
</li>
<li>
Holders transform <a>presentations</a> into <a>verifiable presentations</a>
to render them tamper-evident.
</li>
<li>
<a>Issuers</a> can issue <a>verifiable credentials</a> about any <a>subject</a>.
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<a>Issuers</a> can issue revocable <a>verifiable credentials</a>.
</li>
<li>
The processes of cryptographically protecting <a>credentials</a> and
<a>presentations</a>, and verifying <a>verifiable credentials</a> and
<a>verifiable presentations</a>, have to be deterministic, bi-directional, and
lossless. Any verification of a <a>verifiable credential</a> or
<a>verifiable presentation</a> has to be transformable to the generic data model
defined in this document in a deterministic process, such that the resulting
<a>credential</a> or <a>presentation</a> is semantically and syntactically
equivalent to the original construct, so that it can be processed in an
interoperable fashion.
</li>
<li>
<a>Verifiable credentials</a> and <a>verifiable presentations</a> have to be
serializable in one or more machine-readable data formats. The process of
serialization and/or de-serialization has to be deterministic, bi-directional,
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