21 April 2025 (NA/EU)

Attendees

  • Andrew Brown

  • Andrew Dworschak, Yakoa

  • Andy Rosen, Sequence Key

  • Drummond Reed, Gen Digital

  • Eric Scouten, Adobe

  • Judith Fleenor

  • Lauren Langsner, Adobe

  • Luke Nispel, OriginVault

  • Makki Elfatih, HKDolts

  • Otto Mora, Privado ID

  • Peleus Uhley, Adobe

  • Phillippe Rixhon, Valunode

  • Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

  • Victor Lu, independent consultant

  • Will Kreth, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

Meeting notes

New members introduction

  • πŸŽ₯ 7'42": Judith Fleenor

  • πŸŽ₯ 4'38": Lauren Langsner, Adobe

  • πŸŽ₯ 5'07": Victor Lu

Review previous action items

πŸŽ₯ 5'41": From 24 March 2025 (NA/EU):

πŸŽ₯ 6'21": 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. β†’ Discussed and decided we don’t need this.

ACTION (βœ…): 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 (βœ…): Eric to merge PR 219.

πŸŽ₯ 12'15": ACTION: Luke to submit a PR adding a JSON-LD context document. → Discussed. Luke will file a PR this week.

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

ACTION (βœ…): 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.)

Review PR #227: Consolidate guidance around JSON schema document

ACTION: Eric to merge pending agreement from APAC group.

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

πŸŽ₯ 12'47": Reviewed PR #228: Add references to JPEG Trust work for ownership and rights declarations. Wording suggested by Phillippe Rixhon.

ACTION: Eric to merge pending agreement from APAC group.

Review PR #229: Clarify the intent of verifiedAt timestamp

ACTION (βœ…): Edited wording during meeting per suggestion Andrew Dworschak.

ACTION: Eric to merge pending agreement from APAC group.

Intent to submit for working group approval

πŸŽ₯ 31'15": Discussed intent to submit the following three draft specifications for working group approval in the next meeting, scheduled for 5 May 2025.

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.

ACTION: Luke to split JSON schema documents into one intended for VC DM 1.1 and another intended for VC DM 2.0. (Filed as issue #230).

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:

Media identifiers subgroup

πŸŽ₯ 44'44": Call for members and getting started. (And apologies for not having done so already.)

Co-chair election

πŸŽ₯ 45'34": 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.

  • πŸŽ₯ 46'37": Scott Perry

Brainstorm identity 1.2

πŸŽ₯ 50'49": What should be on our radar once we complete identity assertion 1.1?

Brainstorming issues and credential formats for future CAWG identity work:

  • Concern about lack of visibility of CAWG. ACTION: Eric to work with to CAI team to increase awareness and outreach about the work of CAWG.

  • DIF’s basic person schema

  • First-person credentials (not ready for adoption yet; Drummond to update when ready)

  • GLEIF legal identity credentials (based on recent conversations at IIW)

  • Identity hooks (see Andrew’s proposal in issue #216)

  • Crypto ecosystem

  • ACIF from IAB Tech Lab