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Add a recommendation section and a security section for payload sizes #445

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@PatStLouis PatStLouis commented Feb 4, 2025

Addresses #437


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@@ -719,6 +719,12 @@ <h3>Handling Unknown Options and Data</h3>
Implementations MUST throw an error if an endpoint receives data, options, or option values that it
does not understand or know how to process.
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<h4>Payload Sizes</h4>
<p>Implementations are encouraged to pay attention to the payload sizes of the Verifiable Credentials they issue.</p>
<p>Presentations can bundle a large volume of credentials, resulting in a higher request size than anticipated. This heightens the risk of interoperability issues.</p>
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a higher request size?

Is this not a higher { result | return | presentation | something-else } size

<p>Implementations are encouraged to pay attention to the payload sizes of the Verifiable Credentials they issue.</p>
<p>Presentations can bundle a large volume of credentials, resulting in a higher request size than anticipated. This heightens the risk of interoperability issues.</p>
<p>A default maximum size of 10MB per Verifiable Credential is recommended as an interoperability baseline, with the possibility of configuring a larger size if required. The configuration should be detailed at an instance level.
This also accounts for the 16MB size limit of most document-based storage database solutions.</p>
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This also accounts for the 16MB size limit of most document-based storage database solutions.</p>
This also accommodates the 16MB size limit of most document-based database storage solutions.</p>

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