21 April 2025 (APAC)

Attendees

  • Alex Tweeddale, Cheqd

  • Drummond Reed, Gen Digital

  • Eric Scouten, Adobe

  • Judith Fleenor

  • Peleus Uhley, Adobe

Meeting notes

Review previous action items

🎥 5'29": From 24 March 2025 (NA/EU):

ACTION: Eric agreed to add a note to PR 211 clarifying that if a validator stops processing at the first failure, there may be other undetected failures. → Discussed and decided we don’t need this.

ACTION (✅): Eric, Otto, and Juan to discuss merging language with Otto’s proposal in #223. Once we’ve agreed, approved to merge this PR. → DONE

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge PR 219.

ACTION: Luke to submit a PR adding a JSON-LD context document. → ?

ACTION (✅): Eric to work with Kim and Juan to determine the co-chair election process. → DONE

ACTION (✅): Eric and Andrew to arrange a 1:1 meeting to follow up on identity hooks. → DONE (See also Andrew’s IIW talk when proceedings are available.)

Discuss issue #216: Identity hooks

🎥 6'27": Long discussion about Andrew Dworschak’s proposal for identity hooks. Andrew has provided a solid introduction to the concept in issue #216.

Discuss issue #212: Self-signing credentials

🎥 13'30": Discussion about Alex Tweeddale’s proposal for enabling named actors to sign identity assertions on their own behalf. See detailed proposal in issue #212.

New discussion about whether verifiable presentations could be used to augment the existing identity claims aggregation model.

Review PR #227: Consolidate guidance around JSON schema document

🎥 27'24": Reviewed PR #227: Consolidate guidance around JSON schema document.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge (already approved in NA/EU meeting).

Review PR #228: Add references to JPEG Trust work for ownership and rights declarations

🎥 28'51": Reviewed PR #228: Add references to JPEG Trust work for ownership and rights declarations. Wording suggested by Phillippe Rixhon.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge (already approved in NA/EU meeting).

Review PR #229: Clarify the intent of verifiedAt timestamp

🎥 29'40": Reviewed PR #229: Clarify the intent of verifiedAt timestamp.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge (already approved in NA/EU meeting).

Intent to submit for working group approval

🎥 30'44": ACTION: All members to review the following draft specifications and make any objections known prior to 5 May 2025 meeting. Highlights of changes since the previous ratified versions of each are called out here:

Not currently calling for WG approval on endorsement assertion. Consider archiving this spec for lack of interest?
Intent to reformat Asciidoc, having learned some best practices.

Media identifiers subgroup

🎥 32'18": Call for members and getting started. (And apologies for not having done so already.)

Co-chair election

🎥 32'49": Process proposal: After today’s meeting, we will open an election for one co-chair position (to serve alongside Eric Scouten). In the event there are multiple candidates, we will choose the candidate by San Francisco-style ranked choice voting. The election will be open for seven calendar days and the new co-chair will serve starting with the next meeting on 7 May.

Open floor for candidates to self-nominate.

  • 🎥 33'34": Alex Tweeddale

Brainstorm identity 1.2

🎥 34'44": What should be on our radar once we complete identity assertion 1.1?

Largely a recap of discussion from NA/EU meeting. Some new items:

  • Can we generalize the identity claims aggregator mdoel to include self-custody of identity signals?

  • Agreed on emphasis for privacy-preserving credentials with subsequent selective or additive disclosure.