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Enterprise credentials carry bigger payloads than personal ones

The now very strong focus on organisation wallet deployment is motivated by getting the right to promise citizens - at home and at work - that life will become big time easier and more secure.  This happens when states, municipalities and enterprises can send and receive all sorts of verifiable credentials to - and receive from - interoperable wallets.  An API harmonisation of until now unimagined scale. 

Starting from the simple eye-openers (often anchored in law > no need for rulebooks). Make citizens see that it is a "human right" to get the MyData needed in life and organisation events to the wallets. In the same way from all sources..

The organisation wallets (EUBWs - used also in the public sector) promise to save 84,7 bn/year in procurement and sales processes in German large and medium sized companies, leads to need to support bigger credential payloads both on volume and semantic complexity. Here the work now started in WeBuild's semantic workgroup is of utmost importance.

 

ChatGPT agrees and says  (+++comments by me at +++) :

"that’s exactly where the EUBW will stand apart. Enterprise  credentials inevitably carry bigger payloads than personal ones — both in data volume and in semantic complexity. Needless to say that enterprises and public sector units have the same need. 

Why:

  1. They describe entities, not individuals.
    An “EU Company Certificate,” “Proof of Employment,” or “IBAN Credential” doesn’t just assert one fact — it usually bundles a web of attributes (registration ID +++LPID&vLei+++, legal name, VAT, directors, registered address, sector codes, etc.). These can’t be reduced to the few kilobytes that fit a PID-style credential.
  2. They encode relationships.
    A business credential often carries who represents whom (power-to-act, signing authority, mandates, delegations). Those relationships can nest and reference other credentials — meaning you get compositional payloads (credential-of-credential links).
  3. They require evidence provenance.
    For trust and auditability, EUBW credentials will often embed verifiable references (URIs, hashes, signatures) to external registers and datasets — “data pointers” rather than flat attributes. That expands the logical payload even if the physical credential remains compact.
  4. They support automation and AI-agent use.
    Machine-readable semantics (OWL, SHACL) and sometimes event triggers or usage policies (Rego, ODRL) will be part of the payload — so an AI-agent can act on a credential, not just store it. That’s a big step beyond today’s personal credentials.
  5. Regulatory anchoring.
    Many enterprise credentials will be rulebook-based rather than statutory — so they’ll need embedded metadata describing the rulebook, issuer assurance level, and applicable jurisdiction — again, more payload.

In short: yes — EUBW credentials will be heavier, but they’ll also be smarter.
Think of EUDI wallet credentials as identity cards; EUBW credentials as legally-aware data containers powering automation and compliance.

 

conceptual layout:


🧱 Payload Layers in EUBW Credentials

Structure:
Think of it as a stacked horizontal bar or ladder, each layer representing a payload component — from simple identifiers up to AI-agent-usable policy logic.


1️⃣ Attribute Layer – “The Facts”

  • Basic data fields (company name +++LPID+++, VAT ID, address, IBAN, employee ID).
  • Compact, schema-based, similar to personal EUDI credentials.
    🡅 Comparable to a “digital business card.”

2️⃣ Relationship Layer – “Who Represents Whom”

  • Power-to-Act, Mandate, Delegation, Role, and Employment references.
  • Linked via DIDs/URIs to other wallets (organisations, agents, people).
    🡅 Makes the credential multi-party aware.

3️⃣ Provenance Layer – “Why It’s Trustworthy”

  • Hashes and links to source registries, QTSP seals, timestamps.
  • Includes reference to rulebooks, assurance levels, and issuing authority.
    🡅 Anchors the credential in verifiable, auditable evidence.

4️⃣ Semantic Layer – “What It Means”

  • OWL classes and properties from shared EU vocabularies (e.g., Core Business, Core Location).
  • SHACL Shapes defining permissible structures and values.
    🡅 Makes the payload interoperable across sectors, borders, and AI-agents.

5️⃣ Policy Layer – “How It Can Be Used”

  • Embedded usage rights, expiry, consent, ODRL/Rego-style policy metadata.
  • Defines what an AI-agent may do with it (sign, pay, verify, delegate).
    🡅 Turns the credential into an actionable digital contract fragment.

6️⃣ Automation Layer – “Who Acts on It”

  • AI-agent signatures, execution triggers, and event hooks.
  • Enables fully automated verification and business process execution.
    🡅 From static data to dynamic, self-executing credential objects."

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