Update abstract to not repeat introduction.

Co-authored-by: Michael B. Jones <michael_b_jones@hotmail.com> Co-authored-by: Brent Zundel <brent.zundel@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> Co-authored-by: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com> Co-authored-by: David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@verifiablecredentials.info>
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-[=Credentials=] are integral to our daily lives: driver's licenses confirm
-our capability to operate motor vehicles; university degrees assert our level
-of education; and government-issued passports attest to our citizenship when
-traveling between countries. This specification provides a mechanism for
-expressing these sorts of [=credentials=] on the Web in a way that is
-cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine verifiable. These
-[=credentials=] provide benefits to us when used in the physical world, but
-their use on the Web continues to be elusive.
+A [=verifiable credential=] is a specific way to express a set of [=claims=]
+made by an [=issuer=], such as a driver's license or an education certificate. This
+specification describes the extensible data model for [=verifiable credentials=],
+how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for
+the exchange of these credentials that is composed of [=issuers=], [=holders=],
+and [=verifiers=]. This document also covers a variety of security, privacy,
+internationalization, and accessibility considerations for ecosystems that
+use the technologies described in this specification.
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