[wbs] response to 'Call for Review: Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review:
Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for
Mozilla Foundation by Tantek Çelik.


The reviewer's organization suggests changes to this Charter, and only
supports the proposal if the changes are adopted [Formal Objection].

Additional comments about the proposal:
   Overall we recognize that this charter is an improvement upon the
previous charter.

Similar to our previous review
(https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2020Jan/0001.html),
It’s still not clear to us how this work is connected to the web as most
people see it, and we are still worried about the privacy concerns we
expressed in the creation of this group
(https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Dec/0010.html).
If those specific privacy concerns were addressed, we request a response
from the working group with links to public documentation about how they
were addressed, or a plan for how they will be addressed in the normative
specifications proposed for this charter.

It is clear that there is non-trivial member and implementer interest in
this work, and thus in good faith, we are giving formal objection feedback
in an attempt to improve the quality of work that is produced by the
working group, and improve the reliability of implementations of the
specifications.

Our formal objection is based specifically on the Success Criteria
section:

The proposed charter says:

"In order to advance to Proposed Recommendation, each normative
specification is expected to have at least two independent implementations
of every feature defined in the specification."

We request this be expanded to include interoperability as determined by
passing open test suites and interoperability between producing and
consuming implementations e.g.:

"In order to advance to Proposed Recommendation, each normative
specification must have at least two independent interoperable
implementations of every feature defined in the specification, where
interoperability can be verified by passing open test suites, and two or
more implementations interoperating with each other. For example Verifiable
Credentials produced by implementations must be consumed by other
implementations and behave as specified. In order to advance to Proposed
Recommendation, each normative specification must have an open test suite
of every feature defined in the specification."

This is example Success Criteria text, we are ok with the Working Group
rewriting it as they see fit as long as they maintain the requirements
contained therein. The CSS Working Group and Web Apps Working Group
charters have similar requirements that may also help.

Thank you for your consideration.


Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/vc-wg-2022/ until 2022-06-03.

 Regards,

 The Automatic WBS Mailer

Received on Saturday, 4 June 2022 01:33:03 UTC