{
  "slug": "conflicting-attestations",
  "title": "Two issuers, two answers, one person. Who decides?",
  "summary": "Credential standards say who may issue. None say what a verifier should do when two trusted issuers disagree about the same human. That gap is where people get stuck.",
  "lede": "Every verifiable credential architecture answers the question of who may issue an attestation. None of them answers what a verifier should do when two issuers it trusts assert incompatible things about the same human. That gap is where people get stuck, and it is about to get much wider.",
  "date": "2026-10-01",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Standards",
  "tags": ["verifiable credentials", "trust registry", "identity governance", "credentialing", "authoritative source", "attestation"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Conflicting%20Attestations/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/conflicting-attestations.html",
  "wordcount": 3753,
  "related": ["identity-decay", "credential-zombies", "verify-without-calling-issuer"],
  "schema": "Article"
}