Add description to issuingAuthority property (#590)

* Add description to issuingAuthority property * Add educational institution to issueingAuthority * Update model/Core/Properties/issuingAuthority.md Co-authored-by: Alexios Zavras (zvr) <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Alexios Zavras (zvr) <[email protected]>
spdx · Jan 11, 2024 · d25ae89 · d25ae89
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@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: Community-Spec-1.0
 
 ## Summary
 
-TODO
+An entity that is authorized to issue identification credentials.
 
 ## Description
 
-A issuingAuthority is TODO
+An issuingAuthority is an entity that is authorized to issue identification credentials.
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+The entity may be a government, non-profit, educational institution, or commercial enterprise.  The URI provides a unique identifier for the issuing authority.
 
 ## Metadata
 
 - name: issuingAuthority
 - Nature: DataProperty
 - Range: xsd:anyURI
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