26 January 2026

Attendees

  • Andrew Dworschak, Yakoa

  • Bill Huang, Trufo

  • Charlie Halford, BBC

  • Dom Guinard, SSL.com

  • Drummond Reed, First Person Project

  • Eric Scouten, Adobe

  • Esteban Garcia

  • Gavin Peacock, Adobe

  • John Carlucci, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

  • Jenny Pretz, DDEX/RIAA

  • Jeremy Uzan, Universal Music

  • Karla McKenna, GLEIF

  • Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe

  • Luke Nispel, OriginVault

  • Marcos Armstrong, CBC/Radio-Canada

  • Makki Elfatih, HKDolts

  • Matt Ford

  • Nicholas Salvemini, Adobe

  • Nigel Earnshaw, BBC

  • Peleus Uhley, Adobe

  • Philippe Mougin, AFP

  • Philippe Rixhon, JPEG Trust

  • Richard W. Kroon, EIDR

  • Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

  • Sébastien Testeau, CBC/Radio-Canada

  • Utkarsh Sharma, Vlinder

  • Vasily Suvorov, accelerate.swiss

  • Victor Grey, JLINC

  • Will Kreth, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

Meeting notes

New members introduction

  • 🎥 2'53": Sébastien Testeau, CBC/Radio-Canada

  • 🎥 5'59": John Carlucci, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

First Person Partner Workshop

🎥 4'01": Drummond gave a description of the First Person Partner workshop, which is happening later this week and also the Summit on Human Agency to be held on 23 February in Napa, California.

Review previous action items

🎥 6'49": Reviewed action items from previous meeting 12 January 2026:

  • ACTION (✅): Group to add language to UX guidance doc to address Pierre Mougin’s concern that we have two potential locations to state publisher identity (metadata assertion vs identity assertion). → DONE (see later in agenda)

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to mark UX guidance document as WG approved and submit to DIF SC for ratification. → DONE (awaiting SC response)

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to mark org ID profile document as WG approved and submit to DIF SC for ratification. → DONE (awaiting SC response)

  • ACTION: Scott to request rights to use the ToIP TF work on high-availability VIDs in the CAWG context.

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to coordinate with Andrew to ensure that previous work on VC/VP work is an active PR against main. → DONE (see later in agenda)

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to merge PR #250 (refer to C2PA 2.3). → DONE

  • ACTION: Eric to work with each of the TF chairs to set up meeting times. → Awaiting DIF staff response

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to revise the identity assertion as framework document to incorporate feedback received. → DONE

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to publish identity assertion as framework document. → DONE

  • ACTION: Charlie to confer with team at BBC about future of endorsement assertion and suggest next steps.

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to draft a PR that adds language to metadata assertion regarding potential duplication of information. → DONE

  • ACTION: Charlie to file new issue suggesting a closer linkage between the CAWG identity framework signer_payload.role field and the Dublin Core metadata fields used in the CAWG metadata assertiopn.

  • ACTION: Eric and Charlie to talk offline and then perhaps bring a proposal to the group.

  • ACTION (✅): Eric to propose a PR that makes this explicit. → DONE (see later in agenda)

Update on JPEG Trust collaboration

🎥 8'55": Leonard gave an update on the JPEG Trust Committee’s work, highlighting the progress and upcoming publication of the second edition of JPEG Trust Part 1, which integrates concepts of authorship, ownership, and rights. He explained the standard’s interlinking components, including CAWG’s identity and metadata assertions and ODRL, and demonstrated how these elements can be utilized in real-world scenarios. Leonard also introduced JPEG Trust Part 2, which offers trust indicator sets, profiles, and reports, and mentioned a reference implementation in Java that supports COG assertions. The discussion concluded with an overview of how various standards and initiatives are coming together to create a connected ecosystem for content credentials and rights management.

Leonard’s slide deck (PDF)

Review metadata assertion PR #10: Avoid duplication of information between identity and metadata assertions

🎥 21'57": Review PR #10: Avoid duplication of information between identity and metadata assertions.

ACTION (✅): Eric to withdraw this PR.

ACTION: Eric to draft a new PR to explicitly explicitly encourage the use of self#jumbf references as shown in Leonard’s presentation

Ratify metadata assertion 1.2?

🎥 36'33": Given outcome of PR #10, is metadata ready to ratify?

OUTCOME: Not ready to ratify.

Readout from trust task force

🎥 37'04": Scott gave a readout from the trust task force meeting that happened last week. The meeting covered how the work of the Ayra Foundation and Trust Over IP’s Trust Registry Task Forc and how these efforts might help CAWG establish communities of trust for content creators.

Review identity assertion PR #251: Add network traffic policy

🎥 39'22": Reviewed PR #251: Add network traffic policy, based on discussion from last week.

ACTION: Eric to revise PR to introduce a new status code for validators to use when their network configuration or policy prohibits verification of credentials.

Review identity assertion PR #252: W3C verifiable credential support

🎥 43'36": Preliminary read of PR #252: W3C verifiable credential support. Will discuss at length in task force to be started soon.

We expect this to be a long-running effort. The current draft will be published at https://cawg.io/identity/1.3-draft+vc-vp/ for the duration of this effort.

did:unconf conference

🎥 46'35": Eric will be attending did:unconf Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, next month. Any topics / questions that CAWG would like to bring to that conference?

Triage open issues for CAWG identity assertion 1.3

🎥 47'57": Reviewed 44 open issues against CAWG identity assertion spec. Sorted into 1.3, post-1.3, or won’t do.

ACTION: Eric to convert notes placed in issues to milestones assigned to the various task forces that are spinning up.