17 November 2025

🎥 6'22": Richard reported out from the media identifiers TF about progress toward best-practices guide and metadata assertion spec. The practice is nearly complete, with only DDEX’s review of music examples remaining, and encouraged further circulation and feedback from interested parties. DDEX is holding their plenary meeting this week and there is a session planned around C2PA and CAWG at which Eric will be presenting. Jeremy expressed support for the initiative and highlighted the importance of ISNI in the music industry, while Richard clarified that the proposed standard focuses on content identification with optional richer metadata.

🎥 13'29": Pia presented a proposed new document providing guidance on UX presentation for CAWG assertions, which is designed to complement the existing C2PA UX guidance. The document introduces patterns for displaying CAWG identity assertions within the C2PA information hierarchy, defines levels of progressive disclosure UIs, and includes examples of UI components. Charlie raised a question about “bubbling up” information, which Pia acknowledged as an area for further exploration.

ACTION: All team members invited to review and provide feedback.

ACTION: Group to add language to address Pierre Mougin’s concern that we have two potential locations to state publisher identity (metadata assertion vs identity assertion).

🎥 35'18": Discussed identity PR #240: Add X.509 trust model guidance.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge this PR.

🎥 36'43": Discussed merge identity PR #241: Add guidance for display of named actor logo.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge this PR.

🎥 41'17": Eric proposed to mark identity assertion 1.2 as completed after merging above two PRs and submit to steering committee for final ratification.

APPROVED

🎥 42'24": Reviewed metadata assertion PR #5: Add media identifiers guidance.

ACTION (✅): Eric to merge this PR.

🎥 47'32": Andrew presented updated proposals for enhancing the use of DIDs, VCs, and VPs in the identity assertion. The new proposals allow for more complex statements about content creators and their roles, including multiple signatures and broader validity ranges.

These notes are available in the following locations:

ACTION: Eric to work with Andrew to re-host the draft specification language in the CAWG repo.

🎥 1h02'05": New interest in supporting vLEI (see https://gleif.org), a credential system that enhances the standard LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) used in financial services. Vasily explained how vLEI allows organizations to prove ownership, designate roles, and issue credentials through a federated system with certified local operational units and qualified VLEI issuers.

🎥 1h20'37": Some implementors are surprised by the requirement to make network calls to validate CAWG identity assertion credentials. Brief discussion about possible guidance for this issue.