Re: Status Update on Multiformats at IETF

Hi Manu, Orie,

I will be at IETF 117, so I will help coordinate with other members (who will come?) to talk with ADs.

shigeya

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, at 20:44, Manu Sporny wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 6:30 PM Orie Steele <orie@transmute.industries> wrote:
>> How are we ensuring that the work at IETF will be stable enough for the W3C to continue to reference.
>
> The current usage of multibase and multicodec in the Data Integrity
> specifications is quite small. Specifically, we use two multibase
> prefixes "z" and "u", and a handful of multicodec entries for ECDSA
> and Ed25519 public keys. We currently state those values explicitly in
> the specifications and that is all we need in order for the
> specifications to be implementable.
>
> To put it another way, we don't have a blocking dependency on the
> Multiformats work progressing at IETF on the same timeline that VCWG
> is on. This has always been the case. Yes, it would be nice if the
> IETF work was ready for us to reference in the VCWG work, but that is
> not going to block the VCWG from being able to get to REC w/ our
> specifications.
>
> At present, we're going through all the feedback that we got at IETF
> 116 and responding to commenters on the IETF Multiformats mailing
> list. We are then cleared, per the discussion at IETF 116, to spin up
> a quick WG to publish the Multibase and Multihash specifications and
> establish the registries at IETF.
>
> If folks want to help in that process, having a chat with Murray (or
> other ADs that were involved in the discussion at IETF 116) during the
> upcoming IETF on what processes are needed to spin the WG up is what's
> needed next. NOTE: It was already approved to go to a WG at the last
> dispatch and there was talk of a "fast process" to get it set up if
> the community wanted it (which it seems to want to do), so the next
> step is to find out exactly what this "fast process" is, get that
> kicked off, and get the WG operational.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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