Mastodawn

A recurring objection to my EUDI Wallet analysis: "Semantics come from rulebooks, not JSON-LD. @context is unnecessary."

I agree with the premise. Not the conclusion.

If vocabularies are in rulebooks, how does a credential tell a verifier which rulebook governs it? @context is a machine-readable link from the credential to its vocabulary. Not embedding semantics — linking to them.

#EUDIWallet #eIDAS2 #LinkedData #VerifiableCredentials #W3C

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larinyo

The JWT ecosystem already uses this principle: IANA maintains a centralised registry of claim definitions — a semantics-linking mechanism.
@context achieves the same binding, but decentralised and domain-controlled. Which is what the rulebook model requires.

"Semantics are essential but linking credentials to their semantics is unnecessary" is a contradiction.

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