Credential Verification Pattern
Pattern summary
A verifier checks a credential, claims, and status information before relying on the result.
TSMM mapping
- Actor: issuer, holder, verifier
- Artifact: credential and status metadata
- Claim: identity, qualification, entitlement, or status proposition
- Verification: signature, schema, status, and issuer checks
- Policy: acceptance or downgrade logic
- Effect: permit, deny, or route a downstream action
Sequence
Holder presents credential -> verifier checks artifact and status -> policy evaluates -> trust decision -> downstream access or warning effect