Re: WG Charter draft, take #2

Thanks, Tim.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 8:25 AM Tim Cappalli <Tim.Cappalli@microsoft.com>
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> Hey David!
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> FedCM has gone through a multi-year incubation process in parallel with
> the spec development. It is ready to proceed with formal standardization,
> which is not possible in a community group.
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> On the VC/mDL/wallet front, there are more questions than answers, which
> was highlighted during the charter development process, and this work has
> not gone through any incubation.
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> So essentially the proposal is that the WG would be focused on FedCM for
> Level 1 and leave the door open for VC/mDLs to join the party in Level 2+
> if that is the desired end state after further discussions and incubations.
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> *From: *David Turner <david@fidoalliance.org>
> *Date: *Monday, July 17, 2023 at 14:24
> *To: *Heather Flanagan <hlf@sphericalcowconsulting.com>
> *Cc: *public-fed-id@w3.org <public-fed-id@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: WG Charter draft, take #2
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> Hi Heather,
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> This is quite a surprise. Do you know why the other work has been pulled?
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> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 7:09 AM Heather Flanagan <
> hlf@sphericalcowconsulting.com> wrote:
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> Hello all!
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> Given the discussion and feedback received on the draft charter, the
> chairs are proposing to scrap the version we’ve been discussing entirely.
> Instead, we’ll focus only on what’s necessary to standardize FedCM and how
> it will help support federated authentication flows when third-party
> cookies are fully deprecated. How wallets enter this and what authorization
> (in the sense that SAML and OIDC use the term) still needs further
> incubation and should continue to be discussed in one or more community
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> It’s also worth noting that in some cases, the incubation of ideas is
> happening outside of the W3C that might influence our work. The OpenID
> Foundation, for example, is working on a draft charter
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/10pzVIpYF8gWVp2F6l0kinsBC9XVS5xZt4n55TzIcNLg/edit>for
> a Digital Credentials Protocol working group that may be of interest.
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> Depending on how the incubation of ideas goes with regards to wallets and
> authorization requirements, our working group charter can always be revised
> through the usual W3C process.
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> If you have any questions or concerns, please respond in this thread or
> discuss on the Slack channel. I’ll also add this as an AOB to today’s call.
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