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Remove issue marker based on implementer feedback to keep feature.
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msporny committed Jan 19, 2025
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than fetching multiple status lists.
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<p class="issue atrisk" title="Efficiency argument is weak">
The "space efficiency" argument for this feature is weak. One list with two types
of status entries must, presumably, be twice as long as a list with one type of
status entries, to ensure proper privacy protections. One privacy benefit of
doing so is that bit flips cannot be known to be associated with a particular
status unless one is also in control of the VC that the status is about.
Therefore, mixing "revocation" and "suspension" in a single list that is twice
as large has positive privacy implications.<br><br>
The "retrieval efficiency" argument is also weak. Performing two HTTP retrievals
instead of one is probably not significant. Performing upwards of five or six,
on a list that is five or six times larger, might result in fairly meager
savings over modern versions of HTTP that bundle requests over a single channel
(such as HTTP/2 or HTTP/3). The requests themselves would save a handful of
bytes with no significant improvement in retrieval speed.<br><br>
The Working Group is looking for feedback from implementers and is considering
striking this feature during the Candidate Recommendation period, since it would
simplify the specification for implementations to not have to support sets of
`statusPurpose` values in the status list credentials (again, a meager savings
in space efficiency at a small cost to retrieval efficiency).
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<pre class="example nohighlight"
title="Associating multiple status entries in a single status list"
data-vc-vm='https://example.edu/issuers/565049/keys/1'>
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