Attribute Vector
Full Title or Meme
A list of Attributes about an individual that is presented to provider of goods or services to establish to ability of the user to successfully complete a transaction with the provider.
Preconditions
- The primary use case for the Attribute Vector is a user navigating to the web site where they need be able establish a level of trust by the Web Site to meet their need for assurance about the user's ability to be trusted with their goods or services while maintaining the user's expectations of privacy. As such it is expected that user stipulations will be included as well as User Private Information.
- Both the user and the Web Site have the capability to create and understand the vector and its release of Attributes to the Web Site.
Problems
- Best method for establishing trust with a web site today in the EV Cert which is designed to bind the web site to a real world entity.
Solutions
- Users can Authenticate in a manner that gives a Relying Party a consistent Identifier that can be sued from session to session without the need for sharing any User Private Information.
- To be fully compliant with the various Privacy legislation like the GDPR or the California legislation the Relying Party may first require that the user establish a channel back to the user for the performance of required Redress and Recovery operations.
- Only then should the Relying Party be in a position to request additional Attributes from the User.