[MINUTES] CCG Asia-Pacific 2026-05-21

This meeting of the CCG Asia-Pacific region focused on the Originator
Profile (OP) technology for verifying content authenticity. The discussion
covered the OP framework's operational pillars, potential applications
across various sectors like media, finance, and government, and the results
of recent proof-of-concept experiments, including website integration and
ad tech protocols. Key areas for future development include scalable
integration methods for content management systems, user interface
enhancements, and the transition towards a distributed, multi-issuer
governance model. The group also discussed browser and mobile integration
strategies, as well as plans for global expansion and the timeline for
releasing the OP browser extension.

*Topics Covered:*

   - *Introduction to Originator Profile (OP) Technology:* The meeting
   began with an overview of OP as a mechanism to verify the authenticity of
   internet content by linking it to a verified entity through trusted
   third-party digital signatures, aiming to combat online deception.
   - *OP Operational Pillars and Ecosystem:* The discussion detailed the
   three key pillars of OP: endorsement, entity verification, and content
   integrity assurance, outlining the current OPCIP registration process and
   the envisioned future distributed governance model.
   - *Potential Applications of OP:* The potential uses of OP were explored
   beyond media, including emergency alerts for local governments, fraud
   prevention in the financial sector, and combating misinformation and deep
   fakes in elections.
   - *Proof of Concept Experiment Results:* The meeting presented findings
   from an eight-month proof-of-concept, demonstrating successful OP
   implementation on websites and through real-time bidding ad protocols,
   validating its effectiveness in verifying authenticity and improving ad
   tech integrity.
   - *Relationship with C2PA:* The distinction between OP (verifying
   information provider authenticity) and C2PA (managing content provenance)
   was clarified, with ongoing discussions for potential collaboration between
   the two complementary technologies.
   - *OPCIP Organizational Background and Partnerships:* The Originator
   Profile Collaborative Innovation Partnership (OPCIP) was introduced,
   highlighting its current membership of 48 organizations, including major
   Japanese newspapers, broadcasting companies, and advertising agencies, with
   ongoing conversations for global expansion.
   - *Technical Roadmap and Scalability:* Future technical development
   priorities were identified as key rollover procedures and the creation of
   scalable, automatic methods for OP deployment via Content Management
   Systems (CMS).
   - *User Interface and Research Plans:* Plans were discussed for
   developing a more user-friendly browser extension, featuring a side-panel
   design, followed by user acceptance research.
   - *Distributed Governance Model:* The architecture's capability to
   support multiple endorsing organizations was confirmed, with the long-term
   goal of transitioning to an ICANN-like distributed governance model.
   - *Browser and Mobile Integration:* Potential integration strategies for
   OP within browsers, including the possibility of native inclusion in URL
   bars, were discussed, alongside challenges and opportunities for mobile
   browser and fediverse client integration.
   - *Global Expansion Strategy:* The team is actively pursuing global
   expansion through conversations with organizations like the World News
   Association and plans to form local community groups to facilitate
   international implementation.
   - *Extension Release Timeline:* The developer-focused version of the OP
   browser extension is expected to be available on browser stores within a
   month, with a more refined version planned for release within the current
   fiscal year.

*Action Items:*

   - *[Denken Chen] Connect News Organizations:* Facilitate introductions
   between additional news organizations and the Originator Profile team to
   expand the reach of the project.
   - *[The group] Register Bugfest:* Notify Denken Chen if interested in
   participating in the interoperability Bugfest scheduled for June 24.
   Request an online meeting room to showcase issuer, wallet, or verifier
   systems.
   - *[The group] Provide Global Contacts:* Provide contacts to Michiko
   Kuriyama or Shigeya S for global project expansion and mobile client
   integration. Help connect the team with organizations interested in the
   Originator Profile technology.

Text: https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-asia-pacific-2026-05-21.md

Video: https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-asia-pacific-2026-05-21.mp4
📝 Notes

May 21, 2026
CCG Asia-Pacific

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Summary

The meeting explored Originator Profile technology for content authenticity
and addressed future scalability, governance, and integration strategies.

*Originator Profile Technology Overview*
The Originator Profile framework verifies content authenticity through
trusted third-party digital signatures. This technology aims to mitigate
online deception across media, finance, and government sectors.

*Experiment Results and Integration*
Proof of concept trials successfully demonstrated authenticity verification
on websites and via real-time bidding ad protocols. Integration with
existing content management systems remains a priority.

*Governance and Roadmap Planning*
The project intends to transition toward a distributed, multi-issuer
governance model similar to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers. Future efforts focus on improving user interface design.

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Next steps

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   [ ] [Denken Chen] Connect News Organizations: Facilitate introductions
   between additional news organizations and the Originator Profile team to
   expand the reach of the project.
   -

   [ ] [The group] Register Bugfest: Notify Denken Chen if interested in
   participating in the interoperability Bugfest scheduled for June 24.
   Request an online meeting room to showcase issuer, wallet, or verifier
   systems.
   -

   [ ] [The group] Provide Global Contacts: Provide contacts to Michiko
   Kuriyama or Shigeya S for global project expansion and mobile client
   integration. Help connect the team with organizations interested in the
   Originator Profile technology.

Details

   -

   *CCG Community Protocols and Announcements*: Denken Chen opened the
   meeting for the 3C's credentials community group (CCG) AP-Pack region by
   reminding attendees about the code of ethics and professional conduct, and
   the requirement to sign a four-part IPR agreement for those making
   substantial contributions (00:00:00 <#00:00:00>). Denken Chen noted that
   the meeting would be recorded and transcribed, and encouraged attendees to
   share news or provide introductions (00:03:24 <#00:03:24>).
   -

   *Interoperability Bugfest*: Denken Chen announced an upcoming technical
   interoperability bugfest scheduled for June 24th, which will be a hybrid
   event allowing for online and on-site participation. The event aims to test
   various credential systems across issuers, wallets, and verifiers, and
   participants were invited to contact the group to arrange access to the
   online meeting rooms (00:05:10 <#00:05:10>).
   -

   *Originator Profile (OP) Overview*: Michiko Kuriyama introduced the
   Originator Profile (OP) technology, explaining that it serves as a
   mechanism to verify the authenticity of internet content to end users (
   00:06:50 <#00:06:50>). Michiko Kuriyama noted that the technology was
   developed to solve the problem of online deception, allowing users to
   verify if a content source is legitimate, thereby preventing users from
   being misled by spoofed or fraudulent content (00:08:05 <#00:08:05>).
   -

   *OP Operational Pillars*: Michiko Kuriyama described the three key
   pillars of the OP framework: endorsement, verification of the entity, and
   assurance that content has not been altered. The process involves a trusted
   third-party organization verifying the originator's background and issuing
   a digital signature, allowing the framework to verify the originator rather
   than relying on self-declarations (00:10:43 <#00:10:43>). This
   information can be displayed in browsers, providing a verifiable badge that
   confirms the content is authentic and tamper-free (00:12:08 <#00:12:08>).
   -

   *Governance and Registration*: Michiko Kuriyama explained that the
   Originator Profile Collaborative Innovation Partnership (OPCIP) currently
   functions as a certificate authority, accepting applications from industry
   associations and originators. While this is a temporary arrangement, the
   long-term goal is to transition this role to an independent organization to
   maintain a distributed ecosystem (00:13:41 <#00:13:41>).
   -

   *OP Potential Applications*: Michiko Kuriyama outlined the potential use
   cases for OP, which extend beyond media to include emergency alerts for
   local governments during disasters, fraud prevention in the financial
   sector, and protection against misinformation and deep fakes during
   elections (00:15:23 <#00:15:23>).
   -

   *Proof of Concept Experiment Results*: Michiko Kuriyama reported on an
   eight-month proof-of-concept experiment that began in August 2025, which
   included 16 websites, such as local government sites and private company
   news sites (00:19:51 <#00:19:51>). The experiment successfully
   demonstrated that OP information could be displayed to prove authenticity
   on these sites (00:21:57 <#00:21:57>).
   -

   *Ad Tech Integration*: Michiko Kuriyama presented the results of a
   second experiment focused on digital advertising, which confirmed that OP
   information could be successfully processed through active real-time
   bidding (RTB) protocols. This integration helps curb ad fraud and enhances
   market integrity by rewarding verified quality content over clickbait (
   00:23:48 <#00:23:48>).
   -

   *OP and C2PA Relationship*: Michiko Kuriyama clarified the distinction
   between OP and C2PA, noting that OP verifies the authenticity of the
   information provider, while C2PA manages the provenance of content between
   creation and publication. Discussions are underway with C2PA regarding
   collaboration on these complementary technologies (00:25:29 <#00:25:29>).
   -

   *OPCIP Organizational Background*: Michiko Kuriyama introduced the
   Originator Profile Collaborative Innovation Partnership (OPCIP), a legal
   entity chaired by board member Jim Murray that includes 48 organizations,
   such as major Japanese newspapers, news corporations, and KEIO University (
   00:26:56 <#00:26:56>).
   -

   *Current Partnership and Adoption*: Shigeya S addressed questions
   regarding the current partnership status, confirming that the majority of
   major national Japanese newspapers, including Yomiuri, Asahi, and Nikkei,
   along with major broadcasting companies like NHK and Nihon Television, are
   participating (00:30:08 <#00:30:08>). Additionally, advertising agencies
   like Dentsu are involved to support the ad tech implementation (00:31:37
   <#00:31:37>).
   -

   *Technical Roadmap*: Shigeya S identified two primary technical areas
   requiring further development: the implementation of key rollover
   procedures and the development of a scalable, automatic method for
   deploying OP through content management systems (CMS) (00:31:37
   <#00:31:37>).
   -

   *User Interface and Research Plans*: In response to a query about user
   study plans, Shigeya S explained that the current extension is for
   developer inspection and that the team plans to design a new version using
   a side-panel extension style for a better user experience. They intend to
   conduct research on user acceptance once this new version is developed
   later this year (00:34:44 <#00:34:44>).
   -

   *Distributed Governance Model*: Addressing a question about multiple
   endorsing organizations, Shigeya S affirmed that the architecture is
   designed to support multiple issuers (00:36:24 <#00:36:24>). While OPCIP
   currently holds governance, the team intends to transition to a
   distributed, ICANN-like model where different trusted parties can issue
   endorsements, ensuring the system remains flexible and scalable (00:38:04
   <#00:38:04>).
   -

   *Browser Integration*: Shigeya S discussed the potential for browser
   integration, noting that while the team is currently utilizing an
   extension, they plan to use a side panel to display trust signals (
   00:39:38 <#00:39:38>). If this proves effective, they may propose
   including this information directly in the browser's URL bar in the future (
   00:41:33 <#00:41:33>).
   -

   *Mobile and Fediverse Potential*: Denken Chen and Shigeya S discussed
   the challenges of mobile browser integration, with Shigeya S noting that it
   requires careful coordination with browser vendors to maintain security (
   00:41:33 <#00:41:33>). Denken Chen suggested exploring integration with
   mobile clients in the fediverse, an idea Shigeya S supported, noting that
   member companies providing news aggregation services are already exploring
   these possibilities (00:44:26 <#00:44:26>).
   -

   *Global Expansion Strategy*: Shigeya S and Michiko Kuriyama addressed
   the potential for global expansion, with Michiko Kuriyama noting that they
   are already in conversations with the World News Association regarding the
   technology. Shigeya S suggested that forming a local community group and
   continued discussions would be the path forward for international
   implementation (00:47:42 <#00:47:42>).
   -

   *Extension Release Timeline*: Regarding the release of the OP extension,
   Shigeya S stated that the developer-focused version will be available on
   the browser store soon, likely within a month, and that a more refined
   version is planned for release within the current fiscal year (00:49:00
   <#00:49:00>).
   -

   *Meeting Conclusion*: Denken Chen concluded the meeting and announced
   that the next CCG call for the Asia-Pacific region will take place in June,
   with a focus on zero-knowledge proofs for content safety algorithms (
   00:50:59 <#00:50:59>).

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📖 Transcript

May 21, 2026
CCG Asia-Pacific - Transcript 00:00:00 {#00:00:00}


*Denken Chen:* Hello everyone. Uh we are going to wait for a few minutes
for people to ch in please.
*Shigeya S:* Uh nothing
*Denken Chen:* No problem. Okay. Uh let's get started. Um hello everyone.
Uh this is the 3C's credentials community group uh meeting specifically for
the AP pack region. Um I'm co-chair of Denan chain. Um before we started to
hand over to the original profile teams uh I need to speak out that we have
a code of ethics and professional code contact reminders and I will send
the link in our chat. So please adhere to it and and if you are going to
make substantial contribution to CCG, you need to sign the four IPR
agreement. Uh you can find all the informations there. Um CCG is a
community group that has been incubating lots of com uh standards uh draft
and then submit to the working group to make it a standards. Um we have
several meetings in CCG and this Apex uh Pacific region. We would like to
encourage more APC region to join our community.


00:03:24 {#00:03:24}


*Denken Chen:* Uh today I see there are several Mandarin speaking uh
attendees here. So I believe there are people from Japan, from Taiwan and
any other regions. So welcome. And before getting started, we would like to
know whether there's any announcement from your community. Uh you would
like to let the community know. uh the whole meeting will be recorded um
and make transcription and then send out to the mailing list after our
meeting. Yeah. So if you have any news or information to share to the
community, please raise your hand or if you are new to this community, I
believe a lot of you are. Uh you can also raise your hand to give a self
introduction. Uh no pressure. Uh if no that's no problem. Um I will send
another link to our community. Um we are work on not this one. Sorry. Um a
moment. Uh okay, here's the one we are working with WCAP and uh Thailand's
ETDA uh for VC workshop.


00:05:10 {#00:05:10}


*Denken Chen:* Uh we are hosting a technical interoperability bugfest. Uh
here's a proposal. Um this will be a interoperability test between
different credential systems uh from issuer wallet and verifier and we we
expected to run an online and on-site a hybrid uh progress on June 24th.
And so if you are interested in bringing your credential systems uh that
could include either issuer side, wide or verify side, please uh let us
know so we can arrange the online meeting room for you. Okay, that's it for
our community and I'll hand it over to Skia and uh Mishika. Thanks.
*Shigeya S:* Hi, I'm Shia K University. Thank you very much for allowing us
to have time to um introduce the original profile technology. So um today
we are presenting um um the um end of users point of view and some of the
technical disc discussion if necessary. So please uh so Mikosan please uh
present the materials.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Okay, thank you Shasan for introducing. Um, so let me
share my screen first. And is my voice clear?


00:06:50 {#00:06:50}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* Um,
*Denken Chen:* Yeah, it's perfect.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* do you see my slide?
*Denken Chen:* Yeah.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Okay, thank you very much. Yes. So, um, hello everyone.
Thank you for joining joining this meeting today. Um, I am Mitsko. Oh,
thank you very much. I am Mitsko Kuryama and I'm working together with
Shigasan to develop and promote the originator profile. Uh, thank you
Lincoln for having us here today. And I guess my many of you may know
Shigasan but not me. So I'd like to introduce myself first. So I have been
working in the news industry at the Yomi Shimbu newspaper, a Japanese daily
and I've been working with the originator profile collaborative innovation
partnership or OPCIP for the past two years. Ashan is OPCIP's tech lead and
also the author of the blueprint and architecture overview of the
originator profile document. So I'd like to go through how originate the
profile works to verify the authenticity of the internet content and
present it to end users so they can see which websites or content are
legitimate and which are not.


00:08:05 {#00:08:05}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* Then I'll share what we did as a proof of concept last
year. Um and that that will be that that was the experiment we ran last
year. So here's the content for today. I'll start with the presentation
first. So please save your questions at the end of the section. Okay. So
first please look at this illustration. You see the wolf trying to have a
chat, pretending as the grandmother of the Little Red Riding Hood, but the
little girl asking who the wolf is and avoiding being tricked. Good to know
that she is smart enough to enough not to be eaten by the wolf. Meanwhile,
does it happen in the real world? The story is a story, but I know people
in this uh meeting would never mistake a wolf as your own grandma when
meeting in person. But on the internet, we face the same kind of problem.
Do you click a link without doubt in an email saying it's from your bank in
today's world? Who is behind the screen?


00:09:20


*Michiko Kuriyama:* And who actually wrote this email? Even you are
thinking you are reading an article on a news site that you believe it's
legitimate. I know you are a group of experts uh but to confirm what's real
is not easy for ordinate users. Without the reliable and easy way to verify
the originator, we are all at risk of being deceived by the wolf. So here
please imagine a person standing in the middle of the room. How do you know
who and what kind of person he or she is? Why is the person here? But once
a second a socially recognized third party endorses the person, you see who
and why the person is here. Is it like a reference when you apply for a job
or introduction of me for instance? So I am Mitsko Kuryama is here from
origata profile. I was kind of endorsed by Denin as a person eligible to
speak here with Chigasan or maybe endorsed by W3C and Yumu newspaper. So
what we originator profile would like to bring to the internet world is the
real world endorsement mechanism.


00:10:43 {#00:10:43}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* Originator profile is a mechanism to provide verifiable
data about the information originator. Remember information is not
sufficient to be reliable with just a self declaration of the originator.
OP is structed framework that links the content back to a verified entity
allowing users and also machines to determine their attitude toward the
content so that they can decide how much they believe in and make informed
decisions or how little they care take care of. So three key pillars of OP
are endorsement, who and what kind of entity is and whether the content has
been altered or or taken out of context. So in our context as CCG, you can
think of this as a verifiable atestation. A trusted third party
organization verifies the originator's background and issues a digital
signature. This moves us from I say I am trustworthy to a trusted authority
confirms I am who I say I am. So we do not maintain a list of trustworthy
entities. Instead we provide a mechanism for a recognized organization to
verify them through its own governance.


00:12:08 {#00:12:08}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* Therefore end users became capable of verifying such
information easily in their browsers. And this framework framework goes
beyond content originators own websites. It's equally applicable to
distribution r layer. Imagine a news aggregator like Yahoo acting as a
verified distributor within this ecosystem. So end users can verify if the
Yahoo is real and also the news as Yahoo content is surely coming from the
news organization in the page or what what if it was a website of a
financial industry. Users can avoid falling for spoofed content by checking
the OP information. So this is showing how the content with OP works. Look
at the browser at the bottom showing breaking news with a blue beam. Here
OP is attached to the breaking news such as in a shape of text and images
in an article in the browser. OP can in OP information consists of
information about the originator contents and signatures. The information
about the originator must be endorsed by one or more that you see on the
left and its socially recognized party to provide the least at least the
existence of the originator as a verified real world entity.


00:13:41 {#00:13:41}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* So in my case the Yomir newspaper would be endorsed by
Japanese newspaper association a known industry association. The number of
proofs can be multiple so that the layer of trustworthiness increases. This
is the whole ecosystem of the originator profile. First, an information
originator at the top in green in uh maybe on the left side registers their
details to receive NOP to OPCIP. This registration includes the association
they need to be endorsed. An industry association on the top left that has
the originator as a member of it or certifies it verifies the originator's
existence or certification and registers such information to OBCIP which
functions as a function a fictional certificate authority because currently
OBCIP access applications from industry associations and information
originators but this is a temporary arrangement. We anticipate that an
independent organization will take over this role in the future. In the
meantime, the originator create uh creates content at test station by
accessing the content attestation server uh which is written in the middle
of the slide. The OB issued by OBCIP becomes valid when paired with the
content attestation only within the specified domain.


00:15:23 {#00:15:23}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* After the originator receives an OP from the
certificate authority which is OPCIP at the moment, the publisher can
attach it to their articles here an OP that can be paired with the
originator's content at the station. The mechanism by which a content
attestation only functions on specified publication sites helps ensure that
distributed content remains tamper-free. When a user visits the site, the
browser extension verifies a digital signatures and displays a verified
batch to the users. You can see it later. Uh so the possibility of OP
extends far beyond the media industry. First in the media sector local
governments can use in in the public sector local governments can use it
for emergency alerts during disasters. This information is essential for
residents and in such cases misinformation can be literally
life-threatening. In the financial sector, fake information directory leads
to economic losses and fraud. In elections, the appearance of deep fakes or
misinformation can undermine social stability and democratic process.
Because OB allows users to verify the background of information themselves,
it has the potential to be the foundational technology across wide range of
sectors.


00:17:05


*Michiko Kuriyama:* So let's go to the demo. I'll switch the screen. Do you
see your mir new sites now? Maybe. Yes. So when you see the uh I don't
think I'm sharing properly. I want to share my whole window. And um Okay.
*Shigeya S:* Maybe you need to share desktop.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Okay. Hang on, please. Yeah, I think now it works.
Okay, so this is the editorial page that Yumir Shinbun operates every day.
And this is the latest one. You see the date? Uh oh, this is yesterday. But
okay, let's go to the latest one. So you see May 21st and the ex browser
extension is here. It has pro originator profile icon. And if I click here,
a small window pops up. And it's yes. So this is saying um the operator of
the website is Yiri newspaper headquarter, Tokyo headquarter. Maybe people
in this meeting can recognize the characters. And in the small window it
also said that the article is published by the following organization which
is Yiri Tokyo headquarter and also yes this this is correct.


00:19:51 {#00:19:51}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* So you see the white rectangle in the main window the
so the white area is showing that the verified area by originator profile
and it it is showing that uh it's not tampered or altered by the uh by any
other organization or person so that users can believe that this is uh
authentic and also tamper-free. shape. So you see whole articles is with
the white rectangle and the point is that the ads are grayed out here
because they have not any originator profile information. So then um this
this was how OB works. So now I'll go back to the presation so that I can
share what we did last year as a proof of content experiment. Okay. So yes,
so the experiment was funded by the Japanese government and conducted over
an 8month period beginning in August 2025. So as part of this project, we
conducted two experiments. The first involved implementing OB on websites
and this included a total of 16 websites, 14 websites belonging to private
companies including 12 new sites and websites of the local governments of
IT Prefecture where Toyota's headquarters are located and Toptoi Prefecture.


00:21:57 {#00:21:57}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* We were able to demonstrate that OB information could
be displayed on each site and the OB information successfully served as
proof of authenticity. The second experiment demonstrated that
advertisement advertisement attached with OP information could pass through
the an active ad auction system and it was displayed currently on websites.
Although there were initial concerns that OB information might be lost
during the process, those concerns have been resolved. So this is about the
first experiment. You see all the names participants and governance notes.
But let's go to the uh to the next page. Um so it's showing that um
deployment how the deployment goes. Uh this is a conceptual chart and based
on the OP technical specifications, we implemented security measures robust
enough for social implementation and constructed OB systems for media
municipalities and corporate websites. We have set up a OP registry on the
left and made it accessible to participating media. They accessed the
content attestation server, obtained content attestations and created news
articles and other content. uh you you see the black uh arrows um in the
middle and also we provided uh three options for assigning CA allowing
operators to choose a method that best suits their needs uh in order to
implement the OP for their own uh content management system.


00:23:48 {#00:23:48}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* So the first was operator side programming, second a
dedicated SAS for the PC and third a word plus plug-in. While these uh
worked well for the experiment, we realized that in a real world production
environment, we cannot manually support every single existing system. So
developing a more scalable integration method will be our next major
challenge. And next is the advertising distribution. So the second
experiment was focused on real-time bidding in digital advertising. What we
tested was whether those ads could be successfully beat on and delivered by
a standard realtime bidding protocols or RTB and they worked. Um this
confirms that op work within op work can work within existing ad tech
stacks to filter out fraudulent ads and ensure brand safety. Current RTV
lacks transparency but integrating OP brings two major breakthroughs. First
it enhances market integrity by rewarding verified quality content over
clickbite. Second, it improve supply chain governance to curb ad fraud. We
are committed to a evolving OP into st a standard for trust in advertising
ecosystem. Um so because the OPC is over I can't show the functioning as
today.


00:25:29 {#00:25:29}


*Michiko Kuriyama:* Uh but these are captured images of the OP extension
showing OB information of each ad on two different news sites from Yuri and
Asahi newspapers. And next uh I'll show uh explain about uh OP and related
technology which includes C2PA. As you have seen OP is a mechanism that
does not track the provenence of content but rather verifies the
authenticity of information provider and displays it to the end user. C2PA
manages the pro uh processes and modifications that occur between the
creation of content and its publication on a website. For news sites like
Yiri operated by media organizations, it's uh crucial to verify the
provenence of source material uh while creating content. On the other hand,
when end users check whether the website they are viewing is legitimate,
they will likely look at the OP information. This is to determine how much
trust they how much trust they can place in the news site when reading its
articles. I believe that how the providence of content is verified is a
factor in the level of trust each user places in news organizations.


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*Michiko Kuriyama:* It's simply impossible for photograph photograph
published in newspaper A not to have undergone newspaper A's publication
process. This is my perspective as someone who works in the industry. So we
have also recognized the complimentary nature of verifying the authenticity
of information and management of its provenence. We have begun discussions
with Cuba regarding the specifications and look forward to further
collaboration in the future. technical information, please visit our GitHub
repo or or and or you can see our recommend uh documentation about OP and
just ask our tech lead directly today. Lastly, I'd like to introduce who
OPCIP is. Originator Profile Collaborated Innovation Partnership is a legal
entity to develop OP technology to verify the originators of online content
and to enable an end users to verify such information. It's an organization
chaired by Jim Murray as you may know as board as a board member of W3C
comprising 48 organizations including Japanese newspapers, advertising
agencies uh and news corp from the United States and KO University. Here's
the member list that you can also see on our websites.


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*Michiko Kuriyama:* And there's 48 members as of March 2026. And that's it
for my presentation. Thank you very much.
*Shigeya S:* Thank you very much Mosan. So any questions? Um so it's uh you
know uh we uh start deploying the technology but uh uh of course we'd like
to um standardize the various part of the the technology and we are trying
to do that in a via uh of course we are really rely on verify credential in
a various ways. So we want to to let uh this community knows about this uh
this technology and I want to get the feedback of course. Thank you very
much. So if if you have a question please raise your hand or whatever.
*Denken Chen:* Yeah. Any questions? And since I speak mentoring as well, so
if you like to ask in mentoring, I can help you translate. Please raise
hand if you have any questions. Uh I do have several questions going first.
Uh okay. So first I'm aware that OP has a partnership.


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*Denken Chen:* Um so what's the status of that partnership? uh if any of
the news organization would like to participate in um I see there is a
contact uh form for it and I would like to help connect more news
organization to this project and what's the status of the current
partnership like is it in the early uh proof of proof of concept finish and
then what's the next plan for next stage?
*Shigeya S:* So let me answer to this question. So first uh thing is that
uh uh we have bunch of the the uh most prominent um broadcasting company
and also newspaper companies on board to this project like uh uh Y is of
course the have a largest number of the subscribers for example and also
Asah is on on it and uh also the Sank or uh also the um I forget the name
this moment but Nikke of course Nik is part of this this effort. So so most
of the largest national newspaper on board all of national newspaper on
board and also multiple local newspaper companies also on board.


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*Shigeya S:* So I think a large number or majority number of the the the by
uh subscription number is on board this to this project and also I want to
mention that uh some of the broadcasting companies on board like uh NHK and
also uh Nihon television and also uh other other companies too and most of
the the major network is on board and also I want to mention that Densu
which is advertisement company is on board to to to work on advertisement
side which um Miko just described is uh what the our target uh of the work.
So that is a participation from the uh on the on the uh CIP and on the
technical side uh we are um making progress and uh the the the last year we
did the multiple experiment and uh it is um deployable besides two major uh
thing we need to to to address. First thing is the key rollover and uh
second thing is how we can deploy this originator profile to to to do uh
buyer um CMS. So we want to make it uh automatic like what let's encrypt
does and uh that also with uh key roll over and that is the thing we need
to to address.


00:33:16


*Shigeya S:* But as far as the u administrator can um do that kind of
configuration to their side then uh at this moment it is still already
deployable in that sense. Yes. So that's uh that answer my your question.
*Denken Chen:* Yes, very clear. Uh, okay. Please, P and Trump.
*Pierre-Antoine Champin:* Thank you. Uh thank you for the presentation
about the uh proof of concepts. Uh you insisted a lot on the deployment on
the um publishers side. Uh was a a user study part of this uh of this proof
of concept? I mean because of course there's the other side. Uh is that is
the plug-in acceptable to the users? Do they actually use it? Uh, does it
change how they trust the content? Did did you have this kind of study as
well?
*Shigeya S:* Um partially we did but uh uh we uh understand what your
concern and and the interest in this regard and we are currently switch to
treat the current version of the uh user interface as a experimental or
develop for de whole developer inspection purposes.


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*Shigeya S:* this extension and we are trying uh we plan to develop a newer
new extension which uh actually which supports a uh side panel extension
style extension which is much better user experience and uh uh we believe
that we provides a better experience with the most needed information
provided to the end user in the in the in the same window. So uh the that
was unfortunate that when we start working on this the side panel was not
the standard but now it's standard so we can redesign the entire thing
using a side panel and this year we will do do that and we are already
working on it and uh after that de development then we we will conduct a
kind of the uh um research on us acceptance sort of thing as you mentioned.
So we are uh we are planning to do that in detail this year.
*Denken Chen:* Yes, thanks. Uh, is there any questions? Please raise your
hand and Trump, please.
*Pierre-Antoine Champin:* Yes, I I had another question. Thank you. Um the
the the so the OPCIP that you presented is currently the only uh uh
organization with the power of endorsing originators.


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*Pierre-Antoine Champin:* Is that right? And uh is the architectures and
implementation ready to allow for multiple such organizations? uh because
again I I I I can't imagine all users on the web uh trusting necessarily
the same endorsing organization and uh as a side question is it possible
for an OP uh well for the metadata that is attached by the originator to be
endorsed by several such certification. Thank you.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Sure.
*Shigeya S:* Yes. Yes. Uh both. Yes. And let me share different screen. So
Mosan, please stop sharing.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Go ahead,
*Shigeya S:* And uh I'm going to share
*Michiko Kuriyama:* please.
*Shigeya S:* Maybe I need to make this different window. Okay. Can she see
she's a architecture of your document?
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Yes. Yes,
*Shigeya S:* Okay.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* it's
*Shigeya S:* Then uh in the architecture uh
*Michiko Kuriyama:* clear.
*Shigeya S:* document we are discussing about the the current model and uh
also in the future model and of course as you mentioned uh here Anthony
that we we have a currently have a governance control of the OIP op entire
OP ecosystem by OPCIP and uh that is not our intention of course and we We
have a willingness to this to make more dis work in a distributed manner
and uh for example one of the uh


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*Shigeya S:* use case is of course we extend we are working within the
Japan and of course it will be we hope to have a jurist dictional
information all also available in from the different PA and also from the
different media. company or as you mentioned anybody actually able to issue
the PAS but within the OPCIP's um governance model of course in this in
this context so this is a one step uh one of the way to extend this and
finally we we have a um shared op route and the core oper like opip for
example first core op issuer is opip but we can add more uh issuers
alongside with the core op issuer of course we need a higher you know
entity and this must be governed by of course like much like I can so we
need to find a way to to govern this but at this m moment we at taking law
to to verify the uh official IP root access. So that is what that we are
thinking of. But of course this system is very uh technically this system
is very flexible.


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*Shigeya S:* But of course the governance model is model and required to do
this sort of the complex things on top of the current design and that is
the kind of the discussion we really want to do in the future. Is that
satisfy your question?
*Pierre-Antoine Champin:* Yes, absolutely. Thank you very much.
*Shigeya S:* Okay, good.
*Denken Chen:* Hey, uh we have one question from the chat uh from Linguan.
Uh speak out. Uh what is the browser's developers attitude? Uh is it
possible that OP will be included in the browser by default? I mean uh I
believe that's from the browser's vendor site. Uh it's a tough one.
*Shigeya S:* Yeah, of course. Of course. And uh uh one of the you know we
know that how the EV certificate uh marker blemarker has developed and
disappeared. But we have a different thought on on that. And uh some of the
information we if we can provide some kind of information like which the
the originate whether the which country and also which uh business uh uh
area the originator company is belong to is uh verifiable then it will
provide a better uh uh way to to judge whether the uh website is legitimate
or not and uh as we can use this side panel we are planning to use the top
part of the side panel to show that kind of information first.


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*Shigeya S:* So if this side works and if it is better suit to move that
kind of the information to the URL bar then it may possible to uh integrate
into the web browser. So I think that the the version of the uh extension
we are developing for the end users end which we will develop this year
will provide a a way to uh seize as the potential of the such kind of
information to be included as a part of the browser. So I think it will be
good chance for us to provide a to provide a good idea to include inclusion
as a browser. So that is what we are thinking about this moment.
*Denken Chen:* Yeah, thanks. And I would like to follow up with that
questions. Uh you started with desktop browser extension. Uh is there any
plan to release a mobile browser extension since there are lots of usage of
reading news on the mobile?
*Shigeya S:* of course but uh uh unfortunately there the limitation on in
the mobile browser at this moment. So we we are looking on it but that is
requires um some of the planning to do to um coordinate with the browser
vendors I think so it will be challenging I


00:43:07


*Denken Chen:* I see. Uh,
*Shigeya S:* think
*Denken Chen:* is there any other questions? Uh, where?
*Shigeya S:* putting Yeah,
*Denken Chen:* Yeah.
*Shigeya S:* potentially it's okay. It's possible,
*Denken Chen:* Wait.
*Shigeya S:* but I'm not sure whether we can provide APK safely in a in the
manner we want to do. And uh we need to deliver this um you know extension
very carefully secured way and so she said we we we are we are trying to
provide a good trust signals to the end users. So we need to make make the
the channel the how it is the information uh signal is provided to the the
delivered to the end user we need to be very careful about it but uh that
is of course technically possible I think so we need to consider about
about it. Yeah thank you.
*Denken Chen:* Yeah, that's that was from the question by the way even
available for mobile APK to trace. I would like to also follow up with that
direction. uh probably it's also a more viable way to implement it with
fediverse.


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*Denken Chen:* I mean for example master key mobile clients to building in
with this feature because uh people use lots of different social networking
clients to renews and the fediverse which is also reinitiated the social
web uh interest group working group within D3C. I think they are open to um
connect with the mobile client developers to build in this feature that
could really check all of the link uh authentication I mean a sorry not the
right word uh uh checking the the news website is legitimmentate right
that's a possible approach
*Shigeya S:* Yes. So yeah. So client side uh of course the data side is has
a uh tons of possibility but also for the as the end user side there are
possibility like uh one of the member company is um is providing news
aggregated aggregated new services very handy one working smartphones and
they have a willingness to implement that of course. So we are not only
thinking about our extension but also possibility in that u that way and so
if you have interested please let let us know we we need to think we want
to hear about that kind of portions.


00:46:00


*Shigeya S:* Thank you very much.
*Denken Chen:* Thank you. Um, is there any other questions? I would like to
ask another question like um do do you have any global extens expansion
plans for example it started very strong in Japan uh with lots of news
organization I believe it has crossed the network effect uh really to
include the whole industry and then we were automistic about the future
when people reading news in Japan they can use this to avoid any fake news
fake information and one of the thing I would be suggesting is like for
example in Taiwan we have lots of information international news that would
reference from the foreign media company and sometimes we we might do it
wrong and cited the wrong news uh it happened it's really hard to detect
any fraud, any fake news in real time really. So uh it can be a practical
way to let the news organization when they are crossing uh citing both news
they can started with that partnership with ops text to really make sure
that both on both side they are setting the correct and trustable source.


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*Denken Chen:* Yeah. So that question is mainly about the global expansion.
Yeah. The
*Shigeya S:* Yeah, that's interesting. And uh one of the thing we want to
uh we have a member one of the member
*Denken Chen:* strategy.
*Shigeya S:* comp company is actually US company use corporation and uh uh
we may think that discuss about that uh further discuss further about the
the global extension in in that manner but uh we have planned to launch our
own uh community group for within the context of the this area. So that
might be one of the way to do to to to share the ideas among the
participants but also uh we need we are find we're trying to find a venue
to do discuss this and also the the thing you mentioned about the linkage
between the the uh news articles between the multiple international global
organizations that seems to be very interesting. Uh so uh let us talk about
that in a in a future occasion. That's seems to me really interesting idea.
Thank you very much.


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*Michiko Kuriyama:* And I would also like to add that we are having
conversation with world news association. So that um they're having a lot
of uh interest to originate a profile technology. So we I can say that we
are already starting our conversation with news organization globally. So
um if you uh have if you know anybody that
*Denken Chen:* Sure.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* um directly to have conversation with us, please let us
know.
*Denken Chen:* Thank you.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Thank
*Denken Chen:* Any other questions?
*Michiko Kuriyama:* you.
*Denken Chen:* And I have my final questions. Um do you have any time plan
to release the originator profile extension uh on the browsers store like a
Chrome web store uh releasing production any time frame for
*Shigeya S:* Yeah. So as I mentioned that we have one of the
*Denken Chen:* that
*Shigeya S:* um popup window style extension and we are dedicated that
version for the developers and also the for the experiment purposes and we
are plann to uh make the extension available on on the store soon very
soon. So we uh I think within a month I guess and uh so it will be
accessible using uh buyer uh stores soon and uh the newer version of the
extension I don't know yet but at least in with within this year I think a
better version of it will be available within this year and uh potentially
on in the store within this fiscical year that is our plan as remember so
that is that the two two version of the extension will


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*Shigeya S:* be available within the horizon that's what I can say at this
moment
*Denken Chen:* Right. Uh thank you for sharing that. Uh I've I've been
knowing this project for over a year and excited to see the PC's and uh
upcoming release version. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions to for
discussions? Uh if no we are going to end these sessions. Uh so final call
no other questions. You can also raise your hand or leave any message.
Okay. If we know we are going to end this session. Uh this is a CCG call
for Ape region. We are going to uh do it once per month. So next time we'll
see you in June uh for zero knowledge proof of on the content safe
algorithm. Uh see you next month. Thank you and thank you for presentations
and Mishko. Thank you. Thank you all for joining us. Thank you.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Thank you.
*Denken Chen:* See you.
*Shigeya S:* Thank you. See you. Bye.
*Michiko Kuriyama:* Bye.


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