Re: The next 4 months: (was Re: Credentials CG Telecon Minutes for 2014-11-11)

I'm fine with both order and assignment of participation. Thanks Manu.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 11/11/2014 01:08 PM, msporny@digitalbazaar.com wrote:
> > Nate Otto:  +1 For continuing the Normalization Spec and the Digital
> > Signatures.
>
> During the call last week, we discussed a number of work items that we
> may want to work on through the next several months. Namely, they were:
>
> 1. Use Cases
>    * http://opencreds.org/specs/source/use-cases/
> 2. Roadmap
>    * http://opencreds.org/specs/source/roadmap/
> 3. Graph Normalization
>    * http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/rdf-graph-normalization/
> 4. Secure Messaging
>    * https://web-payments.org/specs/source/secure-messaging/
> 5. Open Badges / Credentials JSON-LD Context/Vocabulary
>    * http://tinyurl.com/nxr9n62
> 6. JSON-LD + JSON Schema validation
>    * http://tinyurl.com/nxr9n62
> 7. Identity Credentials
>    * http://opencreds.org/specs/source/identity-credentials/
>
> We can organize this work and make progress in parallel as long as we
> have enough volunteers to do so. Here are the potential work streams:
>
> Stream Roadmap: Clearly, work items #1 and #2 are important to ensure
> that we're addressing everyone's needs and we have a coherent plan to
> move forward.
>
> Stream Signatures: It looks like the W3C could pick up work items #3 and
> #4 as official work within the next couple of months if we're ready to
> move on it. The final solution created by this group depends on these
> technologies being official standards.
>
> Stream Context: Badge Alliance is more or less leading the charge on
> work items #5 and #6.
>
> Stream Protocol: Work item #7 defines the protocol for reading/writing
> federated badges/credentials, and is the last thing that we need to put
> into place to create an interoperable ecosystem.
>
> If forced to prioritize, I think the following order makes the most
> amount of sense:
>
> 1. Signatures
> 2. Context
> 3. Roadmap
> 4. Protocol
>
> I think we can do Stream Signatures and Stream Context in parallel, with
> Stream Roadmap being worked on in parallel if we have enough volunteers.
>
> As for the teams for each stream, these seem to make sense to me:
>
> Stream Signatures
>   * Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, Brian Sletten, Nate Otto, Dave Lehn
>
> Stream Context
>   * Nate Otto, Sunny Lee, Kerri Lemoie, Chris McAvoy,
>     Dave Lehn, Dave Longley, Manu Sporny
>
> Stream Roadmap
>   * Mark Leuba, Mary Bold, Eric Korb, Sunny Lee, Nate Otto
>
> Thoughts? Any large work items in the next several months that I missed?
> Should we re-order?
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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> http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/
>
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