08 September 2025

Attendees

  • Andrew Dworschak, Yakoa

  • Andy Rosen, Sequence Key

  • Colin Murphy, Adobe

  • Dylan Ross, Adobe

  • Eric Scouten, Adobe

  • Erik Passoja, SAG/AFTRA

  • Gavin Peacock, Adobe

  • Jenny Pretz, DDEX/RIAA

  • Jeremie Charrier, Proof.com

  • Jeremy Uzan, Universal Music

  • Juan Caballero, DIF

  • Misha Deville, Vidos

  • Nigel Earnshaw, BBC

  • Philippe Mougin, AFP

  • Philippe Rixhon, JPEG Trust

  • Richard W. Kroon, EIDR

  • Santiago Lyon, Adobe

  • Scott Jones, RealEyes

  • Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

  • Victor Grey, JLINC

  • Will Kreth, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

Meeting notes

New members introduction

  • 🎥 8'30": Jeremie Charrier, Proof.com

  • 🎥 9'14": Jenny Pretz, DDEX/RIAA

  • 🎥 10'04": Misha Deville, Vidos

Review previous action items

🎥 10'37": Reviewed previous action items:

  • ACTION: Eric to reach out to Wenjing and other ToIP members to build tighter collaboration on agentic identity. → UNDERWAY. No new developments.

  • ACTION: Eric to explore promotional video ideas. → UNDERWAY. Working with Adobe team to build a new 1-2 minute video that we can use on site. ETA ~~late August~~ → early September.

  • ACTION: Scott to work up initial draft text to use on CAWG home page. → DONE. Eric to include on new site.

  • ACTION: Luke to revise endorsement PR #11 to incorporate suggestions from Andrew’s presentation.

  • ACTION: Referred metadata assertion PR #5 back to media identifiers TF to finalize wording and fill in TO DO items. → UNDERWAY. Partially done in last week’s meeting.

  • ACTION: Andrew to propose updating examples in remainder of metadata asertion spec to match this suggested usage. → NOT DONE

  • ACTION: Eric to revise wording to encourage use of human-language and URN-based identifiers. → NOT DONE

  • ACTION: Drummond and Andrew to meet to ensure that FPP and CAWG VC efforts are technically aligned. → NOT DONE

Review metadata assertion PR #5: Media identifiers TF

🎥 12'31": Reviewed metadata assertion PR #5: Media identifiers TF, specifically the phrase:

A CAWG metadata assertion MAY also contain other metadata not directly described in this section. (TO DO: Reword to make it more clear that metadata other than media identifiers can be used in the same metadata assertion. Discuss in full CAWG meeting.)

ACTION: Eric to revise this sentence and move it into the non-normative introduction section (currently §6.1).

Follow up on 1.2 VC additions

🎥 20'31": Discussed Upcoming CAWG PRs discussed in 11 August meeting.

Andrew previewed an initial draft of the first PR which allows generic VCs and VPs to be incorporated into the identity assertion framework.

ACTION: Andrew to review notes from this discussion and incorporate into a formal draft PR to review in an upcoming meeting.

ACTION: Eric to convene a joint meeting with DIF’s Credential Schema Working Group after this PR has gone through another round of CAWG review.

ACTION: Group to revisit the question of what goes into signer_payload and what goes into the signature field.

Update from JPEG Trust

🎥 56'02": Phillippe Rixhon provided an update on JPEG Trust, highlighting its progress as a standard in development with partial implementation in European projects. He emphasized the importance of digital identity and wallets in Europe by 2027, noting that this will have a significant impact worldwide, particularly in e-commerce and content access.

Philippe stressed the need for compatibility between CAWG and the EU digital identity framework, identifying this as a crucial area for future development and collaboration. (Good news: When asked about the work on general-purpose VCs and VPs that Andrew presented earlier, Phillippe suggested that we “in good shape” to develop a standard that s compatible with EU DI framework.)

EU IPO, the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union, published in May an important study on Gen AI from the point of view of copyright.