- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:36:08 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAFfrAFpqmVT7CnsQCJdQ8gNyX=tPz8+ZstRgyHFn3Ov2zwk+mg@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks for the update, this sounds much more feasible than the previous proposal. Perhaps some of us who sent so much mail on this topic a few weeks ago might reconvene on a non-REC-track list (rdf-dev? [1] Or a fresh CG) to continue to explore the design space for more general RDF Signature? Dan [1] https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-dev/ On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 14:37, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > a few months ago we started a discussion on a proposed W3C WG charter for > Linked Data Signatures[1,2,3]. This announcement was followed by a very > long discussion thread, primarily on the Semantic Web mailing list (i.e., > following [2]). The discussion made it clear that, in its form proposed in > [1], the charter would not find consensus in the community. As a > consequence, we decided re-think and repurpose the proposed work items to > find a way forward. The current thinking is as follows. > > 1. Instead of a Linked Data Signature WG we would propose a different > Working Group, tentatively called RDF Dataset Canonicalization and Hash > (RCH) Working Group, whose charter would be restricted to the RDF Dataset > Canonicalization and the RDF Dataset Hash deliverables of [1]. We felt that > those two deliverables meet the need of the RDF community and were not > particularly controversial in terms of goal and rough technical approach. > > 2. As a coincidence, the charter[5] of the Verifiable Credentials Working > Group[6] runs out at the end of this year and will need > rechartering. Furthermore, the current thinking in that Working Group is > that the new charter would have to be more than a simple "maintenance" > Working Group, i.e., it would work on the next version of Verifiable > Credentials Data Model specification. The plan is, therefore, to create > another deliverable as part of that new charter, tentatively called > "Verifiable Credential Linked Data Integrity", that would follow the lines > of work in the (proposed) LDI and LDSV deliverables of [1], but restricted > in scope to the needs and nature of Verifiable Credentials. Obviously, > those deliverables would rely on the technologies developed in the RCH > Working Group. > > We would hope that this approach will find the necessary consensus to > complete the work. > > About the timing. Unfortunately several factors have affected us and some > will continue to do so. Our discussions on the plan outlined above happened > right at the start of the vacation period in the Northern Hemisphere, and > we did not think it appropriate to start a new discussion then. That was > followed by some major personal issues that created a delay again for, > essentially, the whole of September. Finally, there are publishing and > chartering issues on other, but related, Working Groups that affect these > plans in terms of the attention and the availability of the the relevant > communities. It is, therefore, difficult to predict when these new plans > will materialize; we would hope we can consider the next official step, > including drafts of the two aforementioned charters, at the end of the > current year or the beginning of 2022. > > That is where we are right now... and apologies for the long period where > we went missing on all this. > > Sincerely > > Ivan Herman > > P.S. Note that [1] incorporates lots of changes resulting from the > discussion on the mailing lists and does not correspond to the proposal > as announced in [2] or [3]; for more information on the evolution of that > proposed charter you can look at [4]. > > [1] > https://raw.githack.com/w3c/lds-wg-charter/f976d487102ef4c31251e5d2a946ac771e60277d/index.html > [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2021Apr/0012.html > [3] > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2021AprJun/0002.html > [4] https://github.com/w3c/lds-wg-charter/commits/main > [5] https://www.w3.org/2020/12/verifiable-credentials-wg-charter.html > [6] https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/ > [7] https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/ > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +33 6 52 46 00 43 > ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704 > >
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