-Looking at the *European Digital Identity* (EUDI) legislation [@eu:eudi]{.title-short.} [@eu:eudi], as well as its predecessor [@eu:eidas]{.title-short.} (eIDAS) [@eu:eidas], and its [@eu:arf]{.title-short.} (ARF) [@eu:arf;@eu:toolbox], it is unclear precisely what is meant by the term 'identity'; neither of them provides an explicit definition. Likewise for many of the technical specifications by Standards Development Organizations (SDOs),[^fn-institutes] which play a major role in the framework's architecture: W3C's [@w3c:did]{.title-short.} (DID) [@w3c:did], [@w3c:vc]{.title-short.} (VC) [@w3c:vc], [@w3c:credapi]{.title-short}, and [@w3c:fedcm]{.title-short.} (FedCM) [@w3c:fedcm]; OpenID's [@openid:vci]{.title-short.} (OpenID4VCI) [@openid:vci], and [@openid:vp]{.title-short.} (OpenID4VP) [@openid:vp]. Older specifications, on which some of these more recent standards are based, merely contain a brief description of 'identity': "\[a] set of attributes related to an entity," in [@openid:connect]{.title-short.} (OIDC) [@openid:connect]; and "\[the] essence of an entity ... described by one's characteristics," in OASIS's [@oasis:glossary]{.title-short.} (SAML) [@oasis:glossary] -- referencing the Merriam-Webster dictionary. These are far from workable definitions for core specifications around this topic.
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