> 2. Some companies even / still requires you bring your University Certificate or whatever as proof. For Pete sake. That was decades ago. Can I pay $5 to Linke

> 2. Some companies even / still requires you bring your University Certificate or whatever as proof. For Pete sake. That was decades ago. Can I pay $5 to LinkedIn or whatever so once and for all they can verify it from there. It would be ideal if universities could agree on an ISO standard for an XML document that could be used to emit digitally signed certificates. Also, on another one for transcripts. Then you could simply upload that to your LinkedIn profile and get a verified mark along your credential, you would see something similar like when you click to view an HTTP certificate (e.g. document verified by someuniversity.edu). One complication would be that university degrees need to be revocable. Digitally-signed documents, I believe, are all irrevocable. So perhaps just a standard XML format (no need for it to be signed). Then a graduate could just share a link like https://certificates.someuniversity.edu/<certificate-id>.xml https://certificates.someuniversity.edu/<certificate-id>.xml or something more sophisticated that supports some way of sharing expirable pre-signed URLs (you may not want to share it indefinitely).