[MINUTES] W3C Credentials CG Call - 2019-07-09 12pm ET

Thanks to Manu Sporny and Dan Burnett for scribing this week! The minutes
for this week's Credentials CG telecon are now available:

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-07-09/

Full text of the discussion follows for W3C archival purposes.
Audio from the meeting is available as well (link provided below).

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Credentials CG Telecon Minutes for 2019-07-09

Agenda:
  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2019Jul/0038.html
Topics:
  1. Introductions and Reintroductions
  2. Announcements and Reminders
  3. DID WG Charter Proposal
  4. Non-Violent Communication
Resolutions:
  1. The W3C Credentials Community Group has reviewed the DID WG 
    Charter Proposal, has gathered public review and applied changes, 
    and suggests that W3C Management moves forward with sending the 
    DID WG Charter to the W3C Advisory Committee for final approval.
Organizer:
  Kim Hamilton Duffy and Christopher Allen and Joe Andrieu
Scribe:
  Manu Sporny and Dan Burnett
Present:
  Ted Thibodeau, Dan Burnett, Dmitri Zagidulin, Joe Andrieu, Moses 
  Ma, Manu Sporny, Andrew Jones, Andrew Hughes, AdeWale Omoniyi, 
  Claire Rumore, Christopher Allen, Bill Barnhill, Markus 
  Sabadello, Drummond Reed, Adrian Gropper, Jeff Orgel, Dave 
  Longley, Justin Richer, Heather Vescent, Jonathan Holt, Kim 
  Hamilton Duffy, Ken Ebert, Kayode Ezike
Audio:
  https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-07-09/audio.ogg

AdeWale Omoniyi: Yup. Glad to be here
Joe Andrieu: 
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LkqZ10z7FeV3EgMIQEJ9achEYMzy1d_2S90Q_lQ0y8M/edit#heading=h.ngyk8y939osi
Drummond Reed: Drummond cannot scribe today as I have to leave at 
  the halfway point.
Manu Sporny is scribing.
Drummond Reed: Drummond asks if the DID Charter discussion can be 
  in the first 30 mins

Topic: Introductions and Reintroductions

Claire Rumore:  Hi, I work with Moses Ma at Future Lab, he asked 
  me to join today, nice to connect with everyone.
AdeWale Omoniyi:  Hi, my name is Adewale, with IBM, leading US 
  Federal Cybersecurity emerging tech work. This is my first call, 
  good to be here. :)
Dave Longley: All previous minutes are here: 
  https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/
Joe Andrieu:  There is a request to talk about Non Violent 
  Communication, there was some engagement with Tzviya, anything 
  else we would like to get on the Agenda for today?
Joe Andrieu:  We'll put you on the queue soon, Claire.
Andrew Jones: @Dlonely thanks
Andrew Jones: @Dlongley thanks

Topic: Announcements and Reminders

Joe Andrieu:  Announcements/reminders - Kim, mind giving us an 
  update?
Manu Sporny:  There's an IEEE spectrum special issue, deadline 3 
  days ago, submission deadline is over, there will be peer review 
  from now until December, and hopefully then a lot of great 
  articles about the work we're doing here will be published, it's 
  a big deal, big issue -- dealing with work here and at DIF and 
  IIW, etc. [scribe assist by Dave Longley]
Dave Longley: S/and IIW and Rebooting, etc./
Christopher Allen:  I was going to ask Kim to talk about the BTCR 
  hackathon in the announcements... we have a Hackathon Aug 5-9.
Christopher Allen: Found the url: 
  https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/btcr-hackathon-2019
Manu Sporny:  We want to help, let us know how we can help.
Joe Andrieu:  Dedicated DID calls on Thursday... that's still 
  going on, we skipped last week because of July 4th...
Drummond Reed:  Assuming we can finish the DID Charter discussion 
  today, they'll pick back up on Thursday.
Joe Andrieu: 
  https://www.meetup.com/Vienna-Digital-Identity-Meetup/events/262359964/
Joe Andrieu:  Vienna Digital Identity meet up - before RWoT in 
  Prague...
Drummond Reed: Thursday DID call details: 
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qYBaXQMUoB86Alquu7WBtWOxsS8SMhp1fioYKEGCabE/edit?usp=sharing
Joe Andrieu:  Would be great if you guys could join us there...
Joe Andrieu: http://rwot9.eventbrite.com
Joe Andrieu:  Then it's RWoT9
Joe Andrieu:  Sep 3-6th... then Sep 7-8th for ActivityPub folks.
Manu Sporny:  That community has pulled in some things we've done 
  before and we'd like to have further alignment, if you care about 
  messaging on the Web and making it secure and SS and all that 
  stuff good community to join. [scribe assist by Dave Longley]
Dave Longley: S/SS/self-sovereign/
Joe Andrieu:  W3C TPAC is happening, DID WG already has a slot, 
  that's in Fukuoka Japan... September is crazy, you'll be able to 
  get frequent flyer miles!
Joe Andrieu:  Then MyData in Helsinki...
Joe Andrieu:  Do we have things to do on the Action Items?
Joe Andrieu: 
  https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22action%3A+review+next%22
Joe Andrieu:  Both opened by Kim, are you the best person to 
  review those?
Bill Barnhill:  I can give a little update, I'm ok with closing 
  original issue, we seem to be proceeding with Bikeshed. I can 
  process Bikeshed in AWS, looking at it, though, there is a Travis 
  CI approach -- better approach, have a document on how to install 
  bikeshed on AWS/Ubuntu... additional tool, w??? HTML to PDF, give 
  a PDF version of spec w/ PDF style bookmarks. Hoping to have a 
  demo in short order.
Joe Andrieu:  I did see the request to get TravisCI approved... 
  Kim approved it.
Bill Barnhill:  I'll be working on the TravisCI version tonight.
Joe Andrieu:  The other issue is JWK cryptosuite specs... these 
  are from last week... sounds like we didn't review, just skip.
Drummond Reed: Thanks Joe
Joe Andrieu:  With apologies to Claire, Drummond has to leave in 
  10 minutes, we'll cover Claire's stuff after that.
Joe Andrieu:  Please jump onto the queue, any of the Editors of 
  the charter/spec... the Chairs would like to bless this and move 
  it to the next level, there is no requirement for a CG to be the 
  source of the charter, looking for guidance.

Topic: DID WG Charter Proposal

Christopher Allen: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-wg-charter/
Manu Sporny:  I'm deferring to Drummond and Markus to take us 
  through it but from a process perspective, having a proposal and 
  resolution from the group is really helpful. Shows more than a 
  handful of people that reviewed it. [scribe assist by Dave 
  Longley]
Manu Sporny:  Tony just raised a bunch of issues last night, we 
  don't have to process those but it's good form. [scribe assist by 
  Dave Longley]
Manu Sporny:  We want the group to say we should progress the 
  charter to the next stage, modulo any editorial changes and that 
  we are ready for W3M to put it to a vote at this point. [scribe 
  assist by Dave Longley]
Drummond Reed:  Looks l ike Tony has added 7 issues over the last 
  24 hours...
Drummond Reed:  I directly responded to some of them. I believe 
  that Tony Nadalin is not operating within the bounds of civility 
  and that I strongly believe... we held two calls just to process 
  his issues... huge thanks to Manu for coordinating 
  suggestions/changes, we had markus, brent, joe, lots of others 
  contributed.
Drummond Reed:  I think we have a superb charter, we propose that 
  we submit this to W3C to move forward.
Drummond Reed:  If we kept doing this, we're playing whack-a-mole 
  for a long time, so I think we're done, we have a solid charter.
Christopher Allen:  As a Chair, if the Editor's feel there is 
  merit, let's handle them... but, Tony has never joined this 
  group, Microsoft isn't a member of the CCG, he's raising these 
  issues again at the last minute, I don't interpret any of his 
  suggestions as being principled objections... it feels like W3C 
  Process abuse.
Christopher Allen:  If it came to me, I don't think we need to 
  respond to his concerns at this point.
Bill Barnhill: Don not minute pleas, but I’d like to note, as an 
  additional data point, that I perceived the same situation when 
  we were trying to get the Open Reputation Management Systems 
  (ORMS) Technical Committee going on OASIS in 2008. The perceived 
  source of the issues at that time was again Mr. Nadalin.
Dan Burnett:  Any member can propose a WG... the real question is 
  what's going to happen once the proposal goes out. Even if Tony 
  Nadalin objects, it's better that that's visible and public at 
  this point... we will have an opportunity to respond and describe 
  how extensive our work has been to date to address his concerns.
Dan Burnett:  At this point, there is no point trying to address 
  Tony's concerns by ourselves.
Heather Vescent: Good point dlongley
Drummond Reed: 2 Years is enough
Joe Andrieu:  I'd like to say two things... 1) There have been 
  debates within the issues where Tony Nadalin, where Tony says "Do 
  X", and the language was already in the spec to "Do X". There is 
  concern that he's just rifing off concerns.
Joe Andrieu:  On the other hand, Tony and others I won't name, 
  some of those objections have made the charter/spec better.
Drummond Reed: I do agree that some of Tony's issues have made 
  the charter better. But it has gone past the point of diminishing 
  returns.
Joe Andrieu:  I have appreciated Kim, Manu, and Dan's attempts to 
  bring Tony into the fold, and we have gone way above and beyond 
  in doing that.
Dan Burnett is scribing.
Jonathan Holt:  Appreciate that we are closers, but in IPFS we 
  have discourse process.
  ... for example, some issues can be closed as not relevant
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  Want to close charter and move to vote.  not 
  everything has to be decided in advance of a WG.  Maybe let's 
  propose moving them to "after WG formed"
  ... If we don't believe his issues should block vote, we should 
  just move them
Joe Andrieu:  We have tried to get Tony involved.  Asked him to 
  join, emailed, had workshop in Seattle where Tony refused to 
  address issues.  We have tried in multiple forums.
Jonathan Holt:  Just want a place for conversations outside of 
  filing issues.
Joe Andrieu:  CCG list would be good, but he hasn't joined
Drummond Reed: I have to leave the call now, but I want to +1 a 
  proposal to submit the DID WG Charter as currently drafted.
Drummond Reed: +1
Heather Vescent:  Non-violent comm proposal is next.  what i'm 
  hearing sounds like leadership problem.
  ... we can as a community use as opportunity to improve 
  leadership.
Joe Andrieu: Thanks, Drummond
  ... one view is that it's our fault/responsibility.  Ultimate 
  ownership is one style, maybe not the best one, but we can use 
  this as an opportunity.
  ... in case where person is adversarial this would be good 
  practice for future challenges
Manu Sporny:  Let's get to DID WG proposal
  ... proposal is in IRC
  ... if chairs raise proposal and it passes, then CG has agreed. 
   Doesn't mean no more changes will occur, since W3M has the final 
  say.  W3C Management will have to deal with Tony's new issues if 
  they want to.

PROPOSAL:  The W3C Credentials Community Group has reviewed the 
  DID WG Charter Proposal, has gathered public review and applied 
  changes, and suggests that W3C Management moves forward with 
  sending the DID WG Charter to the W3C Advisory Committee for 
  final approval.

Dan Burnett: +1
Dave Longley: +1
Manu Sporny: +1
Christopher Allen: +1
Ken Ebert: +1
Joe Andrieu: +1
Adrian Gropper: +1
Andrew Hughes: +1
Bill Barnhill: +1
Markus Sabadello: +1
Moses Ma: +1
Jonathan Holt: +1
Drummond Reed: +1
Dmitri Zagidulin: +1
Ted Thibodeau: +1
Kayode Ezike: +1
Joe Andrieu:  Proposal passes with strong consensus

RESOLUTION: The W3C Credentials Community Group has reviewed the 
  DID WG Charter Proposal, has gathered public review and applied 
  changes, and suggests that W3C Management moves forward with 
  sending the DID WG Charter to the W3C Advisory Committee for 
  final approval.

  ... manu please take to W3C
Manu Sporny:  When we forward proposal W3C already knows about 
  it.  We can let them know about Tony's new issues, but they are 
  expecting it.
  ... once they make any edits, it will go out to AC.  Hopefully 
  will be approved before TPAC.
  ... now is when we go around and get as many votes as we can.  
  Urge all member companies you know to approve.
  ... need a minimum of 25 votes.  VCWG holds the record for most 
  number of positive vwotes.  Let's get 50-60 for DIDs.  We want to 
  show strong broad support.
Joe Andrieu:  Two years of work starts when the group begins :)
Manu Sporny:  +1 To heather.  Everyone in group stands to do 
  better wrt communication.  It is easy to misinterpret.  However, 
  Tony has consistent behavior over 4 years across multiple groups 
  in multiple standards orgs .
  ... Tony's behavior is the worst i have ever seen anywhere
Dan Burnett: +1 From Dan Burnett
Manu Sporny:  We don't know why he does it, but it is incredibly 
  destructive.  For those seeing it for the first time, you need to 
  know he is not operating in good faith.  Really aggressive 
  behavior that is antisocial.
Heather Vescent: Appreciate that background Manu, IMO the 
  solution is to remove him in that case.
  ... that said, i'm pleased that Clare is here to talk about how 
  this can be a safe and positive environment.  It takes constant 
  work to make sure that we live up to that.
Heather Vescent: And that is a perspective of the leadership 
  model that I mentioned, that if someone is not contributing to 
  the forward movement of the work, then it is the leaders 
  responsibility to resolve it, if only by removing the impact of 
  that person.
Manu Sporny: Thanks for listening, heathervescent ... it's up to 
  all of us to determine how to interact with him appropriately.
Manu Sporny is scribing.

Topic: Non-Violent Communication

Claire Rumore:  My background in NVC is from a background in 
  social sciences... how this relates to group cohesion. Non 
  Violent Communication is one methodology and it's widely known, I 
  am no master, but I have enough skill to make an introduction of 
  the methodology for the group.
Claire Rumore:  If we feel like this is useful, we can bring in a 
  specialist. Moses raised about problematic communication that may 
  be happening. NVC may or may not be useful to him. If he is 
  resistant to being a group participant, it may not work, but you 
  could use NVC to heal rifts.
Claire Rumore:  There are 4 tenents to NVC - Observations, 
  Feelings, Needs, and Requests
Claire Rumore:  I put an overview of NVC in our paper...
Claire Rumore:  All four of those things are important... It's 
  clear that Tony has Needs that he's not communicating, and we 
  need to understand those needs. He is clearly raising lots of 
  Feelings in the group... he seeks being listened to in a 
  particular way. When the group is put on defense, then we can't 
  listen, and the group isn't able to process his concerns.
Dan Burnett: Tony is a special case.  We shouldn't make the NVC 
  conversation about him.
Claire Rumore:  I'm going to do a 15 minute demonstration in 
  Prague, to highlight how this happens.
Claire Rumore:  Tony may be a special case, that's for this group 
  to decide.
Claire Rumore:  However, NVC can help the rest of the group that 
  want to b e team players...
Dan Burnett: +1 To bending over backwards to work with those who 
  want to contribute productively
Claire Rumore:  Otherwise, this group has good cohesion... 
  aggression is not helpful in any group...
Joe Andrieu:  Is there a link to this paper?
Moses Ma:  We'll submit this to RWoT  readings...
Moses Ma: Tony is an opportunity. I'm being serious.
Joe Andrieu:  Dan Burnett, mentioned that let's not apply this to 
  Tony because he's a special case... but many of us wanted to 
  apply NVC to this community.
Moses Ma: Here is the NVC paper: 
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcvjmrqk314ehjo/DID%20NVC%20paper%20for%20RWOT.pdf?dl=0
Joe Andrieu:  I grew up with 4 siblings and fought all of the 
  time, it's second nature for me to be aggressive... it feels good 
  for me to take the gloves off... I like conflict, but it's not 
  always the most productive habit, and I'm very excited given the 
  opportunity to learn more about NVC and adopt more of it's 
  practices. Speaking as a CCG Chair and RWoT board member, let's 
  do something in Prague.
Joe Andrieu:  And then let's figure out how to flow it into here.
Moses Ma:  I wanted to have all of you to consider Tony as a 
  special opportunity... we should go talk with specialists in NVC, 
  invite Tony to that meeting.
Moses Ma:  I don't think I asked Claire to join the list, trying 
  to reduce amount of work we all have to do, please forward.
Manu Sporny:  The PWE is interested in NVC, and I'll try to make 
  that connection.
Joe Andrieu:  No problem ending the call early, very happy about 
  the DID WG Proposal. Thank you for bringing NVC to the group and 
  W3C, Claire and Moses, we really appreciate it.
Moses Ma: Bye all
Christopher Allen: Ciao everybody!

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