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CCG Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Telecon

Minutes for 2020-02-23

Agenda
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Feb/0080.html
Topics
  1. Introductions and Reintroductions
  2. What's inside the credential envelope?
Organizer
Kim Hamilton Duffy, Joe Andrieu, Christopher Allen
Scribe
Jim Goodell
Present
Chris Winczewski, Simone Ravaoli, James Chartrand, Nate Otto, Jim Goodell, Adam Lemmon, Greg Nadeau, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Steven Pattison, Juan Caballero, Stuart Freeman, Greg Kidd, Alex Jackl
Audio Log
Good Morning everyone!
Simone Ravaoli: Good afternoon ;-)
Good afternoon! I am unable to connect through Linphone, any otheer option?
James Chartrand: I am using onsip.com
Jim Goodell is scribing.
Thanks Jim- didn't want to volunteer because I wasn't sure what was needed!
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Alias: said something
Juan Caballero: Sorry can't scribe today, bad connection!
Nate agreed to scribe next week

Topic: Introductions and Reintroductions

Alex Jackl introduced himself
Juan Caballero: https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/t3-innovation <-- AJackL mentioned being involved in this cool effort I'd never heard of until just now!
Juan Caballero: Also https://www.a4l.org/
Simone_Ravaioli has been working on standards across globe, with IMS & PESC, fan of Open Badges
Chris Huston with eLumen co-chair CLR with IMS introduced himself
Kim Hamilton Duffy: Chris Houston (CLR/IMS) introducing himself
Greg Nadeau talking about what goes inside the VC "envelope"

Topic: What's inside the credential envelope?

Slide 46 - put achievement (definition) on the outside of the envelope, the assertion on the inside
Juan Caballero: Thanks for that!
Greg Kidd: What badges does with DIDs is what CLR should do with DIDs (and others?)
Kim Hamilton Duffy: CEDS acronym is "common edu data standard"?
Alex Jackl: Beauty of having many work streams is that a lot of work being done, and there is coordination leading to a universal direction
Nate Otto: VC envelope and CLR/OB look a but different but there are ways of using it so that it can be compatible, e.g. achievement with a rubric with different achievement levels, can link achievement level from rubric
Juan Caballero: ^Hehe I was there! Didn
Juan Caballero: 'T understand much at the time, tho :D
Simone Ravaoli: +1 On Nate
Jim Goodell: CEDS is US edu-supported group focusing on data vocab, logical models [scribe assist by Kim Hamilton Duffy]
Kim Hamilton Duffy: ...Used for data at rest. doesn't get into data transport side of standards
Kim Hamilton Duffy: ...Has stayed connected with other data initiatives. U.S. and non-U.S.
Kim Hamilton Duffy: ...Can pull in improvements from different SDOs
Kim Hamilton Duffy: ...Can provide translations "rosetta stone"
Ceds.ed.gov
Jim Goodell: For learner, wallet will need to support a range, but for "issuers" there will be specific focuses. Work through IEEE ILR happening will help [scribe assist by Kim Hamilton Duffy]
Chris Houston: SOn got a competency-based report card (shown in slide 2)
Chris Houston: SLide 3 shows JSON notation of the competency-based report card assertion, would work inside the assertion envelope we've been talking about
Chris Houston: Rubric-criterion labels and competencies are the assertion
Simone Ravaoli: Can I add you to the q to give us your high-level thoughts on where similar work is happening in europe? (We'd like to ask you to lead a dedicated call to discuss in-depth later) [scribe assist by Kim Hamilton Duffy]
Chris Houston: Uses OB mechanism for email / hashing
Simone Ravaoli: Sure
Chris Houston: Associations used t place the assertion or the related achievement on a graph
Greg Kidd: There are some things I disagree with (how to approach similar solutions) It will not take months....we are working out differences
Nate Otto: Evolution of the CLR - candidate public final (available for public viewing) - no one has signed up to be a consumer implementation of CLR yet, 2 publisher implementations
Nate Otto: IMS leadership expressed some interest for compatibility to W3C VC, but not yet clear what that means...
Nate Otto: We should look at actual examples and code to see that it can work
Simone Ravaoli: CEN standard in EU then EC put financing into some ERASMOS projects...
Simone Ravaoli: Now EUROpass project EUROpass digital credential ecosystem EDCI
Kim Hamilton Duffy: I think/hope some of the T3 innovation network pilots will exercise the receiving side
Simone Ravaoli: Slight corrections on the scribe: CEN (not CEN), Erasmus+ (not Erasmos)... thanks so much Jim :-)
Kim Hamilton Duffy: (In addition to other POCs discussed)
Alex Jackl: This problem of not having people receiving the data is a problem across the ecosystem, receiving is the hardest part, effort not to creat a wallet that can hold the different forms of data... then people ready to accept that data ....
Simone Ravaoli: Thanks all