13 July 2026

Attendees

  • Andy Rosen, Sequence Key

  • Bill Huang, Trufo

  • Bruce MacCormack

  • Cooper Halpern, Digital Governance Institute

  • Drummond Reed

  • Eric Osterweil, Verisign

  • Eric Scouten, Adobe

  • Erik Passoja, SAG/AFTRA

  • Jenny Pretz, DDEX/RIAA

  • Jeremy Uzan, Universal Music

  • Karla McKenna, GLEIF

  • Matthew Rappard, Cognitive Proof

  • Nathan Freitas, ProofMode

  • Nicholas Salvemini, Adobe

  • Niels Rump, DDEX

  • Peleus Uhley, Adobe

  • Philippe Mougin, AFP

  • Richard W. Kroon, EIDR

  • Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

  • Toby Weir-Jones, Verisign

  • Vasily Suvorov, accelerate.swiss

  • Victor Grey, JLINC

  • Will Kreth, HAND (Human & Digital) Identity

Meeting notes

New members introduction

  • ๐ŸŽฅ 11'23": Cooper Halpern, Digital Governance Institute

Review previous action items

๐ŸŽฅ 12'29":

ACTION: Eric to prepare Asciidoc site. → DONE (except it wasn’t — more later)

Review identity assertion PR #265: Rewrite X.509 validation section

๐ŸŽฅ 13'02": Reviewed PR #265: Rewrite X.509 validation section. Since the previous review, we restored some important text that had been lost in merge-conflict resolution.

The relevant section in this PR is ยง8.2.2. Validating the COSE signature.

ACTION (โœ…): Eric to merge this PR.

Ratify identity assertion 1.3?

๐ŸŽฅ 19'07": Working group approval for identity assertion 1.3 once above PR is merged.

ACTION (โœ…): Eric to submit identity assertion 1.3 to DIF Steering Committee for ratification.

๐ŸŽฅ 24'26": Reviewed PR #1: Initial specification, converted from Google Docs working draft. It was identified later that we were reviewing an outdated draft.

ACTION: Eric to re-convert the document to Asciidoc using corrected source provided by Erik.

ACTION: Eric to move definitions of consent domains into the conceptual model section.

Structure of CAWG specs

๐ŸŽฅ 30'29": Do we want to have a consolidated spec release starting with 1.4?

ACTION: Eric to create a consolidated spec after the 1.3 release is finalized.

Definitions task force

๐ŸŽฅ 36'02": Erik moves that we create a definitions task force. Will meet at 9am Pacific on Thursdays.

Readout from trust task force: Scott

๐ŸŽฅ 39'34": Scott provided an update on the Trust Task Force, reporting progress on finalizing the Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) integration with four required fields and discussing plans to draft these parameters into the specification.

Update on VC/VP task force: Eric and Scott

๐ŸŽฅ 43'17": Looking for co-chairs who can carry this group forward. Scott and Eric to present to W3C VC task force on 22 July.

Readout from UX task force: Matthew

๐ŸŽฅ 45'12": Six PRs for UI/UX language updates to 1.3 specifications. Scott raised concerns about low attendance at the CAWG UX task force meetings and encouraged better participation.

Readout from vLEI task force: Vasily

๐ŸŽฅ 49'27": vLEI TF is hoping to have a complete draft at the next meeting.