09 February 2026
Meeting recording (54m)
Attendees
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Andrew Dworschak, Yakoa
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Charlie Halford, BBC
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Christian Suacier, Archon
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Dom Guinard, SSL.com
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Eric Scouten, Adobe
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Erik Passoja, SAG/AFTRA
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Jenny Pretz, DDEX/RIAA
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Jeremy Uzan, Universal Music
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Karla McKenna, GLEIF
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Luke Nispel, OriginVault
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Marcos Armstrong, CBC/Radio-Canada
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Nathan Freitas, ProofMode
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Nicholas Salvemini, Adobe
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Peleus Uhley, Adobe
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Philippe Mougin, AFP
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Philippe Rixhon, JPEG Trust
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Richard W. Kroon, EIDR
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Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute
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Sri Murugan, ???
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Tom Jones
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Utkarsh Sharma, Vlinder
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Vasily Suvorov, accelerate.swiss
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Victor Grey, JLINC
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Will Kreth, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity
Meeting notes
Review previous action items
🎥 6'17": Reviewed action items from previous meeting 26 January 2026:
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ACTION: Eric to withdraw metadata PR #10: Avoid duplication of information between identity and metadata assertions. → ✅ DONE
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ACTION: Eric to draft a new metadata PR to explicitly explicitly encourage the use of
self#jumbfreferences as shown in Leonard’s presentation. → ✅ DONE (will discuss later) -
ACTION: Eric to revise identity PR to introduce a new status code for validators to use when their network configuration or policy prohibits verification of credentials. → ✅ DONE (will discuss later)
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ACTION: Eric to convert notes placed in issues to milestones assigned to the various task forces that are spinning up. → ✅ DONE (will discuss later)
Review metadata assertion PR #11: Update to reference C2PA 2.3 and CAWG identity 1.2
🎥 9'20": Discussed metadata assertion PR #11: Update to reference C2PA 2.3 and CAWG identity 1.2.
ACTION (✅): Eric to merge PR.
Review metadata assertion PR #12: Add section on referencing the named actor from an identity assertion
🎥 11'21": Discussed metadata assertion PR #12: Add section on referencing the named actor from an identity assertion.
ACTION: Eric to revise PR per feedback received after the meeting. New section to be added similar to existing section 5 to describe how to represent multiple representations of the same entity (i.e. human readable vs URI).
Phillippe shared this later in the meeting:
In Dublin Core, you can express multiple contributors by repeating the dc:contributor element for each individual or organization, or by separating them with a semicolon within a single field. As dc:contributor is a repeatable element, this allows for the inclusion of multiple contributors, such as editors, translators, or illustrators, in addition to the primary creator. See 4.8 Creator and 4.10 Contributor here: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/usageguide/elements/
Metadata assertion spec ready to finalize?
🎥 22'20": Based on above PRs, are we ready for working group approval on metadata assertion 1.2?
OUTCOME: Not ready.
Review identity assertion PR #251: Add network traffic policy
🎥 22'48": Discussed identity assertion PR #251: Add network traffic policy.
ACTION: Eric and Peleus to revise wording to differentiate between transient failure and configuration/policy prohibition on the validator.
Review identity assertion PR #254: Move VC to §8.3 and change section title
🎥 32'17": Discussed identity assertion PR #254: Move VC to §8.3 and change section title.
ACTION (✅): Eric to merge PR.
Review identity assertion PR #255: Rework W3C VC introductory section
🎥 35'11": Discussed identity assertion PR #255: Rework W3C VC introductory section.
ACTION (✅): Eric to publish rendered version of this PR for further review. Please see https://cawg.io/identity/1.3-draft+vc-vp+new-introduction/#_w3c_verifiable_credentials.
Better assistance for users / implementers
🎥 41'42": Discussion about how CAWG could do a better job of presenting its work to potential users. As an example, the IPTC has a technical work group and separately a user outreach and education work group.
Also raised is having a set of interoperability test suites.
Continue discussion in next meeting.