... Today we'll run through the charter as our main agenda item ✪
... Primarily adding and subtracting use cases and requirements ✪
... This work evolved out of the digital credentials consortium (14 north american universities) ✪
... All 14 had previously experimented on their own with their own pilots (some but not all blockchain anchored/hashed) ✪
... VC spec 1.0 is very new, despite over a decade of experimentation and incubation, primarily in the education space (openBadges, blockcerts, etc) ✪
... Hitting a wall on interop and cross-verification; for that reason, wanted this discussion to be more open and gather more requirements and feedback from outside ✪
Greg Nadeau: BTW - Kim referred to CM4LTS - that is the IEEE Conceptual Model for Learner Technology Systems (CM4LTS). Kim, Nate, me, and others are working together on that. Study Group meets this Fri ✪
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Lots of these pre-W3C credentials we're talking about use XML, whereas the W3C ones are so far almost entirely in JSON-LD ✪
... Since all the VC tooling so far has been very JSON-LD, most people have just been mapping or translating from XML to LD ✪
Hans Pongratz: Is there are good web way to join the voice call? ✪
... Understandably, lots of people are hesitant to shift to these new systems with untested/new security issues in the SSI world ✪
Greg Nadeau: Hans US phone: +1.540.274.1034 x6306 EU phone: +33.9.74.59.31.06 x6306 ✪
Nate Otto: @HansP You can use a SIP client (I signed up for OnSIP), though reports are the SIP gateway has been a bit finicky of late. ✪
... One middle ground is non-blockchain PKI via OIDC rather than DID-based SSI ✪
... Existing university authentication methods are one way to anchor, access, and sign VCs ✪
... The great thing about the VC data model is that it's very flexible on ToU, security and privacy considerations, allowing many different kinds of use cases, but ✪
... We have yet to really explore and stabilize the parameters of those use cases around sharing and semi-public contexts ✪
... But moving on to the agenda item here, we want to zoom in and clarify scope and focal use cases, particularly in these terms ✪
Kerri Lemoie: Self-intro: openBadges for the last decade, been working on my dissertation, and working with Dept ED on blockchain verification for educational credentials ✪
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Thanks Nate, will call on you next. thanks for joining! ✪
Error: (IRC nickname 'juancaballero' not recognized)[2020-02-03T16:39:27.785Z] <juancaballero> ... just to throw out a question for later/food for thought: LIBRARY use cases?
... How libraries intersect with professional development ✪
... Does anyone have experience with library of congress standards or other library work? ✪
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Reminder that march-ish, we'll be releasing Kerri's report, on blockchain (and other decentralized) innovations ✪
... That report is going to save all of us a lot of time ✪
Nate Otto: Self-introduction: Badger platform at OpenSky : we are interested in coming together and finding the next path forward that will unite all our efforts over the last 5 years ✪
... In envelopes, digital signatures, and DID Auth / recipient verification ✪
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Simone -- can I call on you next? ✪
... There are usecases in education that are ready to go, well-documented and clarified, waiting to connect all the dots ✪
... And leave the "trials while we wait for parts to come together" stage in the evolution of this tech ✪
Nate Otto: Thanks, all! I'm going to have to drop off IRC to drive, but I'll stay on audio for a bit longer until the connection drops. Glad to get started. What I'm most excited about is coalescing some implementers on a well-chosen set of standards and schemas so that we have a working example that is complete for use cases we define. Verifiable Credentials, DIDs for recipient identity, claim structure, digital signature means, identifier authentication (DID Auth?). ✪
Error: (IRC nickname 'juancaballero' not recognized)[2020-02-03T16:42:59.675Z] <juancaballero> Simone_Ravaioli: Self intro: based in Italy, work for
... Digitary (Dublin, Ire), although lately we're working with lots of APAC universities ✪
... We've been trying to keep track of all the moving parts, including the European Commision work (most recently, EuroCat ) ✪
... Also we've been working with North American efforts ✪
Error: (IRC nickname 'juancaballero' not recognized)[2020-02-03T16:51:22.038Z] <juancaballero> ... Self-intro: chief scientist at Dock (blockchain-based company), but i
... Am more interested in privacy and selective disclosure, am joining this call as a "concerned citizen" ✪
... I am interested in DIDs to create indirection/redirection to aid privacy and lifetime access considerations ✪
... I hope we can all get to know each other over the next few weeks and happy to be here! ✪
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Yes! lifecycle considerations and privacy concerns are of central concern to most or all of us ✪
... With VCs, the idea is that decentralization and user-centric control will be protected, although there is a lot of work left to do there ✪
Hans Pongratz: Self intro: Senior VP/CIO of TUeM ✪
... In Munich, we are on the one hand issuer and, on the other, verifier of a lot of educational credentials ✪
... So we want to be ahead of the curve as all these systems go live ✪
Uli Gallersdörfer: Self-intro: also from Muenchen ✪
... I'm a PhD student here, particularly interested in how realworld identities map to onchain/immutable/highly-public identities ✪