[VC Security & Trust Document] Authority may be the root of trust

[Macke]

Imported from AB/Connect bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/openid/connect/issues/2018

Original Reporter: danielfett

Re “The root of trust from the perspective of a Verifier is the Credential Issuer”

Giuseppe De Marco

2023-03-06

it may be the Authority that regulates a particular trust framework, where all the participant adehere

in a multilateral federation we may not assume that all the RP should known all the VCI, with direct trust relationship. that’s why even for the trust establishment between differenct participants there may be the need of a trusted third party, that would be superior to both RP and VCI, and represent the root of trust