Add discussion for why id should not be auto-generated

w3c-ccg · Feb 12, 2024 · 9fd76d9 · 9fd76d9
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diff --git a/components/Credential.yml b/components/Credential.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ components:
             type: string
         "id":
           type: string
-          description: The ID of the credential. This property MAY be empty. The issuer SHOULD NOT auto-generate the id property since the client wanted to issue a VC without the id.
+          description: The ID of the credential. This property MAY be empty. The issuer SHOULD NOT auto-generate the id property if not provided, as a Verifiable Credential does not require the id property to be valid, and there are use cases for which no id property is required.
         "type":
           type: array
           description: The JSON-LD type of the credential.