[MINUTES] VCWG Entity Recognition 2026-04-14

The VCWG Entity Recognition meeting on April 14, 2026, focused on several
key technical aspects of verifiable credentials, including specification
renaming, transitive trust, use cases, and wallet support for registries.
The meeting participants engaged in discussions and reviews, with some
topics leading to further exploration and potential implementation
considerations.

*Topics Covered:*

   - *Renaming Specification Vote:* A vote was held for renaming the
   vc-recognition specification, with a link provided to the voting platform.
   - *Transitive Trust Discussion:* The concept of transitive trust was
   discussed, with a relevant document having been circulated the previous day.
   - *Use Cases Document Review:* The use cases document was reviewed and
   deemed satisfactory by attendees.
   - *Balanced Trust Architecture:* The importance of the specification in
   implementing a balanced trust architecture between centralized and
   decentralized systems was highlighted.
   - *Wallet Support for Registries:* The potential for wallets to support
   checking registries and tracing verifiable credentials backward was
   identified as an interesting, though worth-exploring, challenge.

*Action Items:*

   - No explicit action items were recorded in the provided transcript.

HTML:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-vcwg-entity-recognition-2026-04-14.html

Video:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-vcwg-entity-recognition-2026-04-14.mp4

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VCWG Entity Recognition 14 April 2026 Attendees

Present

Benjamin Young, Kayode Ezike, Kevin Dean, Phillip Long, Shigeya S

Regrets

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Chair

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Contents

   1. VC Recognition Meeting <#78b3>
   2. Renaming Specification Vote <#fb11>
   3. Transitive Trust Discussion <#bc0d>
   4. Use Cases Document Review <#e695>
   5. Balanced Trust Architecture <#0fd5>
   6. Wallet Support for Registries <#a45b>

Meeting minutes VC Recognition Meeting Renaming Specification Vote

Kayode Ezike> Renaming vc-recognition Specification | OpaVote
<https://opavote.com/en/vote/6241510774538240>
Transitive Trust Discussion

Kevin Dean> Transitive trust.

Kayode Ezike> It was sent out yesterday
Use Cases Document Review

Phillip Long> looks good

Benjamin Young> vc-recognition/use-cases.html at main · w3c/vc-recognition
· GitHub <https://github.com/w3c/vc-recognition/blob/main/use-cases.html>
Balanced Trust Architecture

Shigeya S> This spec will be an important piece to implement balanced trust
architecture among centralize/decentralized, imo.

Benjamin Young> 👍

Benjamin Young> acknowledged source?
Wallet Support for Registries

Kayode Ezike> Will be an interesting test for wallets, which will need to
support checking registries and tracing back from the VC backwards, but
worth exploring

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