> But there are also private, non-governmental vendors that verify your physical ids and create verified credentials for you. In that case, the private DI vendor is the issuer of the verified credentials.

But who's going to trust those vendors? This is the job of the government IMO, one of the few things you just can't rely on the private sector for. I definitely don't want my birth certificate credential tied to, say, Google :D the Government cannot , for example, remove my credentials because I said something polemic, while Google (and infamously Twitter) most definitely can and seem quite happy to do if they can.