18 May 2026
Agenda
Review previous action items
ACTION (determined when meeting with Charlie Halford): Eric to draft a new cawg.actions assertion spec. → NOT DONE
Holiday coverage
Task force meetings next Monday (25 May) may need to be rescheduled for US holiday.
Also, Eric not available for 29 June general meeting.
Readout from trust task force: Eric
Key topics:
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Trust registry vs credentials all the way down?
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Is the governance assertion a membership credential vs delegation of authority?
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Can I trust the credential? Can I use it to operate under my governance?
We posited five goals for identity endorsement:
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Enable verification of content creator identity for an arbitrary length of time after content creation.
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Enable content creator to state the governance under which the content is being created. (This was discussed as a reference-bound registry. I think.)
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Enable content creator to state the endorsement of a governance organization under which the content is being created. (Big open question: How much is baked in at time of content creation vs how much needs to be discovered at time of verification?)
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Enable distinction between content creator’s use of restricted metadata that is authorized by professional organization from non-member assertion of that same metadata.
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Enable discovery of additional information / updates to permission / endorsement that may have occurred subsequent to the content creation.