[MINUTES] VCWG Spec Refinement 2025-10-13

Meeting Summary: VCWG Spec Refinement - 2025/10/13

This meeting was a test run for the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working
Group (VCWG) specification refinement call infrastructure.

*Attendees:* Manu Sporny

*Topics Covered:*

   - *Meeting Infrastructure Overview*
      - The meeting infrastructure's automated recording and transcription
      capabilities were explained. This includes video, audio, and text
      transcription (raw, Markdown, and HTML).
      - The process of publishing these materials to the VC mailing list
      and community infrastructure was clarified.
      - The role of the AI in breaking down the HTML transcription file
      into topics, and minutes format for each topic was clarified.
      - The workflow for making decisions within the specification
      refinement process was explained (issues, pull requests, VCWG
meetings for
      final decisions).

*Key Points:*

   - The infrastructure automatically starts recording when editors join
   the call.
   - Recordings and transcriptions are archived on the community group
   infrastructure.
   - Minutes and meeting materials are sent to the mailing list at 6:00
   p.m. Eastern on the day of the call.
   - Decisions on specification refinement calls are not final, but feed
   into the formal VCWG process.
   - The first real call will be this Thursday, and will be the time to
   talk about work mode.

Text:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vcwg-spec-refinement-2025-10-13.md

HTML: ${htmlUrl}

Video:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vcwg-spec-refinement-2025-10-13.mp4\n##
*VCWG Spec Refinement - 2025/10/13 09:42 EDT - Transcript*
*Attendees*

Manu Sporny
*Transcript*

Manu Sporny: This is a test of the W3C verifiable credentials working group
specification refinement call infrastructure. The infrastructure is
designed to start when the editors of a specification being worked on at
the VCWG join the call. The infrastructure will automatically start
recording both video and audio and we'll start a transcription. after the
call the transcription will be summarized and published at links on the web
that are accessible to anyone. there will be multiple files that are
published. the first is a video recording of the meeting. The second is a
text transcription both in raw text as well as markdown format.

Manu Sporny: and then the final thing will be an HTML file that follows the
W3C transcription format. that file will be broken up into sections by the
artificial intelligence that is recording the session following the format.
links will be provided for each topic. there will be up to eight topics
listed. all the attendees will be listed. and each topic will be broken
down in the minutes just like they are today. that HTML file is also linked
to when the minutes are sent out.

Manu Sporny: the archive infrastructure will also send an email to the
verifiable credentials mailing list with a summary of the discussion for
the day the topics that were covered and a raw log of the transcription
including links to the text version of the transcription, the markdown
version of the transcription and audio recording of the transcription. it
is up to W3C staff to the HTML file from the link provided to W3C
infrastructure. all other recordings will be stored on the credentials
community group infrastructure in perpetuity. it doesn't delete any of the
recordings.

Manu Sporny: queuing just is run by people raising their hands in Google
Meet. whoever is running the meeting typically the lead editor of the
specification will call on people and go in order of the raised hands or
whatever the editor decides the order should be. any decisions made on the
specification refinement calls are not final. they will usually lead to
issues being addressed, pull requests being raised and discussed.

Manu Sporny: but the decision to publish the specifications as candidate
recommendation or those sorts of things will require meeting a verifiable
credential working group meeting to happen. the rest of the work mode will
be discussed on the first call that is coming up this Thursday. again a
reminder this is only a test call to test out the meeting infrastructure.
that is it for the rundown of how the meeting infrastructure works.

Manu Sporny: this call the transcription and those things will be sent out
to the mailing list automatically at 6:00 p.m. Eastern of the same day of
the call. Thank you for reading and potentially listening. look forward to
our first call this coming Thursday. Goodbye.
Meeting ended after 00:05:09 👋

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