[MINUTES] W3C Credentials CG Call - 2019-04-02 12pm ET

Thanks to Lionel Wolberger for scribing this week! The minutes
for this week's Credentials CG telecon are now available:

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-04-02/

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

----------------------------------------------------------------
Credentials CG Telecon Minutes for 2019-04-02

Agenda:
  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2019Apr/0000.html
Topics:
  1. IP notes, call notes,
  2. Introductions & Reintroductions
  3. Announcements & Reminders
  4. Action Items
  5. DID Report out for AC Meeting
  6. Survey results
Action Items:
  1. add note to did method registry process about versioning 
    method specs in a way that bubbles up to the registry
Organizer:
  Kim Hamilton Duffy and Joe Andrieu and Christopher Allen
Scribe:
  Lionel Wolberger
Present:
  Bohdan Andriyiv, Lionel Wolberger, Christopher Allen, Jeff Orgel, 
  Joe Andrieu, Andrew Hughes, Heather Vescent, Amy Guy, Dmitri 
  Zagidulin, Ted Thibodeau, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Ken Ebert, Jonathan 
  Holt, Markus Sabadello, Nate Otto, Vaughan Emery, Drummond Reed, 
  Brent Zundel, Manu Sporny, Dan Burnett, Richard Varn
Audio:
  https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-04-02/audio.ogg

Kim Hamilton Duffy: Sorry, problems connecting
Lionel Wolberger: +1

Topic: IP notes, call notes,

Lionel Wolberger: ... Intro, re-intro, announce, reminder, action 
  items...
Lionel Wolberger: ... Review DID progress for the AC meeting
Lionel Wolberger: ... Heather survey results
Lionel Wolberger: ... Code of conduct
Lionel Wolberger: ... And conflict management
Lionel Wolberger is scribing.
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/

Topic: Introductions & Reintroductions

Menlo Park, CA. Background in SW engineering and digital health.
  ... worked in startups. following blockchain for 1.5 year, DID 
  for 10 month
Heather Vescent: FYI - this is Karn Verma
  ... interested as I see future applications around patient 
  data, doctor identity, health care in general
  ... That was Karn Derma
Karn Verma
Lionel Wolberger: Heather +1
Scribelocity!
Heather Vescent: And Karn helped on the CCG survey analysis & 
  report!
Reintro: Kaliya Identity Woman, just back from India research on 
  their National ID system
  ... Run the IIW, 28th one coming up beginning of May
  ... in progress now Decentralized Identity Foundation, 
  organizational development
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.internetidentityworkshop.com
Focus on communicating these activities to other businesses
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/announcements/
  ...

Topic: Announcements & Reminders

Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://zoom.us/j/7077077007
Dedicated DID calls every Thursday, zoom room 
  https://zoom.us/j/7077077007
  ... 1300-1400 Pacific, and DID resolution 1400-1500 Pacific
1300-1400 DID Spec Pacific, and DID resolution 1400-1500 Pacific
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.w3.org/2019/04/AC/Overview.html
  ... NExt week Quebec April 7-9 W3C meeting
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.internetidentityworkshop.com
  ... IIW coming up
  ... DID One Day hackathon and credential exchange
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  That W3C link is password protected, my W3C 
  cred didnt open it
Heather Vescent: Link to the Amazon book: 
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q3TXLDP/
Kim Hamilton Duffy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q3TXLDP/
Book! Kaliya & Heather wrote Comprehensive Guide to 
  Self-Sovereign Identity
  ... includes core building blocks: wallet, agent, verifier 
  code, issuer code
  ... a look at ledger projects
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Lionel -- good point, you probably need AC 
  creds to see it
  ... a list of companies, a look at the standards shaping the 
  space
  ... a look at the organizations and where you can get involved.
  ... Kaliya encourages everyone to buy a copy and write a 
  review!
Drummond Reed: Link?
Drummond Reed:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q3TXLDP/ [scribe 
  assist by Kim Hamilton Duffy]
Heather Vescent:  It's on pre-order, Kindle, if you have any 
  issues, let Heather/Kaliya know
Drummond Reed: Thanks!
  ... share on LinkedIn, Twitter
  ... Thanks to the contributing authors Kim Hamilton Duffy 
  (Author), Markus Sabadello (Author), Dmitri Zagidulin (Author), 
  Juan Caballero (Author)
Kim Hamilton Duffy: 
  https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22action%3A+review+next%22

Topic: Action Items

I will be sure to mention the book on the HL Identity WG
  ... CCG call connection problems action: chairs action: review 
  next meeting: next
Heather Vescent: Thank you @Vipunsun!
  ... no one complained, so the call-in issues seem better
Manu Sporny:  Since we did nothing, this was fixed by those magic 
  internet elves
  ... DID methods in the registry without associated DID 
  specifications
  ... making good progress
Kim Hamilton Duffy: 
  https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/59
Markus Sabadello:  Dom, no response. Might be deprecated.
  ... UPOrt deprecated this method but has introduced other 
  methods
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  Uport, might be useful to mark this one as 
  deprecated, since people may be working with it
Joe Andrieu: +1 To retaining uport as "deprecated"
Jonathan Holt:  Version control issues; machine readable
Joe Andrieu: +1 To add version to registry
  ... For version control, implement a better syntax around 
  changes and whether it has been deprecated
Manu Sporny:  Specification should have version in the title
  ... JSON-LD can support the other request, this is a respec 
  feature
  ... This requires work by the people writing the 
  specifications, not everyone does that
Drummond Reed: +1 To adding that note to the registry 
  instructions.

ACTION: add note to did method registry process about versioning 
  method specs in a way that bubbles up to the registry

Topic: DID Report out for AC Meeting

Sound is garbled for me, you too? <<
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Yes
(Internet elves got mad at us again)
Dan Burnett:  What is the timing that we expect for this?
  ... we need to know for when the TAG is likely to need this 
  document.
  ... W3C AC meeting is next Sunday/Monday in Quebec
Drummond Reed: Kim is breaking up
(Crimson and clover)
Breaking up pretty bad
Joe Andrieu: (Over and over, indeed)
Drummond Reed: Manu sounds good
W3C goal: report out all the progress we are doing
  ... progress towards the working group
  ... not clear who is waiting on whom
. We have the DID spec peeting this Thursday, that is great fast 
  progress....
  ... Joe/Kim will clarify use cases
  ... Dan mentioned, the DID explainer may need some more 
  outcomes
  ... Manu, what is your view on DID progress in terms of what 
  will the W3C AC be most interested in
Heather Vescent: Is sip or call in better audio?
Lionel Wolberger: +++1
@Heathervescent I think the issue is with the call bridge so 
  neither is better
Heather Vescent: Ah, thanks @Justin_R.
Manu Sporny:  From W3C perspective, we have no info
  ... it will likely be discussed at the AC meeting (why they 
  invited you, Kim)
  ... then will give us directives
  ... Manu put in PRs to simplify the introduction
  ... to be dealt with at the Thursday meeting
  ... where do we draw the line on DID methods? Is DID Facebook 
  allowed? Is DID Web allowed?
  ... do we commit and allow only decentralized DLTs?
  ... Re: ABNF and Service Description, good progress with MS and 
  DR
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  Is W3C waiting for DID explainer, Use Cases,
Drummond Reed: BTW, I am happy to help with the DID explainer. 
  Who is leading that?
Manu Sporny:  May want to check with Wendy. Likely, they are not 
  waiting since we submitted charter and supporting documentation 
  (a spec).
  ... This work is cleaning all that up, but that is not required 
  for a working group to be formed
  ... So move those things forward, but they are not gating items
Dan Burnett: Drummond, Joe and I are doing explainer.  The only 
  issue for us has been the recent discussions on DID vs. DID-URL, 
  URLs, etc.
Drummond Reed:  A new paper started at the last RWoT can help
Drummond Reed:  This Thursday quite important, you are all 
  invited
Dan Burnett:  The DID explainer does not 'compete' with the other 
  docs.
  ... It answers very specific TAG questions, it's not a general 
  tutorial, more like a TAG Q&A (a TAGAQ)
Kim Hamilton Duffy: 
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s15wHQEALSAQ3JUUScGGii3re2mJxGcQgIeSk1nHh5U/edit?usp=sharing

Topic: Survey results

Drummond Reed: Got it, Burn, it sounds very complementary to 
  "Understanding DIDs in Greater Depth" that we started at RWOT. 
  Link to that in-progress doc: 
  https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/draft-documents/understanding-dids-in-greater-depth.md
Heather Vescent:  Shoutout to Karn Verma, he volunteered and came 
  through !
Origin: In December the chairs asked for feedback, so Heather 
  offered to run this survey.
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Great work Heather and Varn!
Heather Vescent:  Setting the stage
  ... reporting aggregated and long term results of the survey
  ... there were 34 opinions collected
Kim Hamilton Duffy: +1 To not shooting messengers. :) respectful 
  dialog please, which I will aggressively enforce
  ... Key points
  ... (1) there is a core group, and relative outsiders from 
  outside North America
  ... Re: Inclusion and Diversity
  ... much of the work has been technical, some not technical, 
  some effort to recruit more people
  ... reality is, we are a very technical group doing technical 
  things, and it is intimidating to non-technical people
  ... North America focus, NA time zones and NA perspectives
  ... non-NA people feel this bias more keenly and feel a 
  difficulty contributing
Richard Varn:  Thanks to Heather for taking the initiative
  ... I am an example of someone who wanted to get inolved, and 
  volutneering really helped me understand what is going on and how 
  I can participate
Heather Vescent: Varn=Karn
  ... quantitative and qualitative feedback
  ... [disclaimer: Karn personal view, I do think I understand 
  what the group is doing,
  ... I hvae this 50 feet view
  ... on the other hand the website and materials of the group 
  are at 2 feet
. And it is difficult for someone like me to discern what is 
  really going on
. A missing "ten foot" POV
  ... process, roadmap and ideas for the future
  ... Most respondents were not confident about how the work was 
  done/managed.
  ... However there was a group of responses that were confident 
  about the process.
  ... Participation: limited by a lack of clarity
  ... Priorities: mainly technical
Drummond Reed: Note: I have to drop now to meet with the BC Gov 
  team. They send their best to everyone.
Manu Sporny:  Thanks for doing this! Having the feedback is 
  great. I suggest opening the document for comments.
  ... I find some of the findings quite sobering, certainly not 
  'happy' about them but glad to have the feedback
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Do we need to find a way to allow people to 
  give anonymous feedback?
Christopher Allen: My question is more about what happens with 
  priorities if DID moves to a WG?
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  Some things here the chairs suspected 
  already, but some we need more information and clarifications
  ... would like a parallel track, what people are thinking about
  ... perhaps enable anonymous feedback? or a session to discuss 
  this in more depth?
  ... What can the ctee do to address this feedback
Heather Vescent:  We authors made a conscious decision to *not* 
  make recommendations, as this community is deeply collaborative
Christopher Allen: Heather, a lot of the priorities are DID 
  related, but we likely be passing them on to a DID WG. so I'd be 
  interested in knowing what non-DID items should be priority?
  ... Some of your questions are addressed so let us continue
  ... Survey in 4 sections
  ... 1 on how the CCG is working
  ... a lot of activity done on DID spec, technical discussions 
  and fostering the community to have conversation about this
  ... let's honor and acknowledge the accomplishment, that this 
  is the core group driving this spec and technology forward. This 
  is a *positive*
  ... Let's highlight one or two items in the report
Karn: This section, to  uncover roadblocks to participating and 
  contributing to the on-going work.
  ... how it works
  ... 27/44 do not know how it works
  ... Roadmap: Most participants felt that there is a lack of a 
  roadmap and a clear set of achievable goals.
  ... two major roadblocks: (1) funding (2) understanding 
  previous and current work
  ... this ties into visibility issues
Karn: More moderation to avoid personal pitches
Manu Sporny: +1 -- Let's continue this on the next call, this is 
  important, we don't want to rush through it.
  ... Weekly calls: attendance numbers on there
  ... people find the Agenda, action items, accountability 
  Working well
  ... released the raw data via a link
@Burn agreed, let's banish JSON-LD ;)
Heather Vescent:  Re: the priorities for 2019
  ... technical suggestions outweigh non-technical, 3:1
Dan Burnett: Now now, Justin, that's not what I said.
  ... this is ground zero of the discussion
  ... there is some call for non-technical information and to 
  involve them
  ... but this community doesn't do well in selcoming those 
  people, involving them and harnessing their skills
  ... about 15 people said they were interested in volunteering, 
  about half put in their contact info
  ... but we need a gentle onboarding curve for new people
  ... cannot just throw them into things
Lionel Wolberger: +1 Volunteering and getting involved is a great 
  way to get into things
Heather Vescent:  Q-
Heather Vescent:  A critical community discussion on this divide 
  between technical activity and non-technical people wanting in
Kim Hamilton Duffy:  Do suggest continuing discussion of this 
  feedback, before deciding what to do next
Bye bye

Received on Sunday, 7 April 2019 05:14:56 UTC