Re: Publication of VC API as VCWG Draft Note

Ivan,

I appreciate this nuance too, however if you review the current draft

https://msporny.github.io/vc-api-vcwg-note/

Specifically section 1.3 it speaks about the treatment of normative and non-normative sections in the document. Which conflicts with the entire intent of a note in this WG (has to be non normative). There are 9 occurrences of the word "normative" in the document to date, its entire structure is not conducive to being represented as a note. The document is designed to be standards track and the unaware reader will interpret it as such even if the WG's formal treatment of it is to interpret its contents as non-normative.

Can you comment on the surrounding text that precedes the description of the VC API, specifically the words "developer guide". The charter certainly does not read as if defining an entire VC exchange API is what was intended in published notes. If this text is not binding then what purpose does it serve in the charter? The implication of that being that we can publish anything as a WG.

Thanks,
Tobias

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