Verifiable Claims Working Group

Face to Face Meeting

April 6, 2018

Chairs: Dan Burnett, Matt Stone, Richard Varn

90 New Montgomery Street,

Suite 1500,

San Francisco, CA 94105

Welcome!

• Logistics
• IRC and Scribes
• W3C WG IPR Policy
• Introductions & IIW report
• Agenda

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Logistics

• Location: 90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105
• WiFi: SSID and password will be given to each individual attendee
• Need your name, email, and cell phone number for the security form to get access
• Dial-in information: WebEx: +1-617-324-0000, meeting #647 312 260
• Restrooms: Out the door, straight ahead
• Meeting time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
• Breaks: 10-10:30 am, Lunch 12:30-1:30 pm, 3:30-4 pm
• Live slides: https://goo.gl/NDTRdz (Google Slides)

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IRC and Scribes

• Meeting discussions will be documented
• Text Chat: http://irc.w3.org/?channels=vcwg
• IRC://irc.w3.org:6665/#vcwg
• WebEx computer access
• Provided in Member mailing list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-vc-wg/2018Apr/0001.html

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W3C WG IPR Policy

• This group abides by the W3C patent policy�https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205
• Only people and companies listed at https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/98922/status are allowed to make substantive contributions to the specs
• Code of Conduct https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/

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Introductions & IIW report

• Introductions

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• Report from IIW

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VCWG Mission and Goals

• It is currently difficult to express claims regarding education qualifications, healthcare data, banking account information, and other sorts of machine-readable personal information that has been verified by a 3rd party on the Web
• VCWG mission is to make expressing and exchanging claims that can be verified by a third party easier and more secure on the Web
• Our charter specifies that education related uses is our first focus but allows that other uses can be addressed such as digital offers, receipts, and loyalty programs and other areas if there is significant industry participation

VCWG Scope

• In Scope
• Recommend a data model and syntax(es) for the expression of verifiable claims, including one or more core vocabularies
• Create a note specifying one or more of these:
• How these data models should be used with existing attribute exchange protocols
• A suggestion that existing protocols be modified
• A suggestion that a new protocol is required
• Out of Scope
• Define browser-based APIs for interacting with verifiable claims. This work may be performed by a future Working Group if there is interest, but is not required for the Working Group to be successful
• Define a new protocol for attribute exchange. This work may be performed by a future Working Group if there is interest, but is not required for the Working Group to be successful
• Attempt to lead the creation of a specific style of supporting infrastructure, other than a data model and syntax(es), for a verifiable claims ecosystem
• Attempt to address the larger problem of "Identity on the Web/Internet"

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Primary Goal for Today

Review and close as many GitHub issues as possible�https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/

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Today’s agenda

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