W3C

Weekly VC WG Meeting

29 July 2026

Attendees

Present
Benjamin Young, Denken Chen, Dave Longley, Hiroyuki Sano, Jennie Meier, Manu Sporny, Phillip Long, Phil Archer, Ted Thibodeau Jr., Ivo Ladenius
Regrets
Brent Zundel, Ivan Herman
Chair
Phil Archer
Scribe
Ivo Ladenius

Meeting minutes

<Phil Archer> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/b1a3e329-74d1-405d-ab47-2934b41c2ab4/20260729T110000/

Welcome and intros

Progress Tracker

<Phil Archer> Issue for the tracker

Phil Archer: that is an issue in the groups github repo. it has a link to the issue

<Phil Archer> Tracker doc

Manu Sporny: sharing his screen, had a hard time tracking all the documents and their statuses, so created this tracker document

Manu Sporny: goal is on the far right, asked for comments if people have extra comments

Manu Sporny: describing the columns that are in the document

Manu Sporny: for some of the work-items there is not enough progress

Manu Sporny: if you are a task force organiser: please keep it up to date

Phil Archer: that spreadsheet is specifically for the groups for recommendation

VCDM 2.1

Phil Archer: no comments, so then move on to VDCM 2.1

Phil Archer: sees dmitri, thanks for the help,

Phil Archer: we need to do with Manu Sporny, people that are less known with the document,

Manu Sporny: not a lot off issues, except for the new issue from 3 weeks ago.

Manu Sporny: not classed as future or flass 4 can be worked on

Manu Sporny: not classed as PR can be discussed

Manu Sporny: dmitri or kevin will raise PR's when discussed

Manu Sporny: we do have a FPWD

<Phil Archer> FPWD is at https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.1/

Manu Sporny: other potential thing that could hold this up, is mix in to make the json 2.1 context

Manu Sporny: wdc datamodel could be the last one through those process because of that

dmititri: are we going to version 2.1 or sticking to 2.0

Phil Archer: that is a issue but we need to decide what to do

Phil Archer: dont do it just for the sake of it

Manu Sporny: we probably should go to 2.1 for 90% change

Phil Archer: we leave it to the editors for now

Recognized Entities

Phil Archer: if you work on document, etc let phil or Brent know and they will make time for it

<Phil Archer> Recognized Entities eds' draft

Manu Sporny: recognized entitites taskforce has have had meeting for a couple of months now. know what the core data model should be

Manu Sporny: it looks like it works well

Manu Sporny: use cases has been added,

Manu Sporny: education, vital records, cross-border trade, product conformity coming from the UNTP, Federated identifiers,

Manu Sporny: pretty solid datamodel, and we have algoritms credential based discovery that you do recognise

Manu Sporny: there are examples of the algoritms and flow diagrams

Manu Sporny: there is also a very comprehensive threat model

Manu Sporny: the threat model documents have also diagrams, data flows, etc

Manu Sporny: stakeholders also have a break-down

Manu Sporny: 18 identified core-threat's and folks from the threat model group have looked at it

Manu Sporny: ecosystem examples, are also full ecosystems examples, for example the GS1 federated identifier example

Manu Sporny: we describe the chain of credentials with a flow, but also with an explicit example with a diagram

Manu Sporny: we also did it for UN GRID cross border trade example

Manu Sporny: the grid use case is interesting because it has a different way of discovering

Manu Sporny: the group is very close to be complete and candidate rec

Manu Sporny: from a deliverable perspective, we are now on the horizontal review request, next steps are CR, test suite, implemented, REC,

Manu Sporny: we havent started on test suite yet

Phil Archer: GS1 will have a response in a month

Phil Archer: hope that a future state: the scanner has the software onboard with this recognized entity

Phil Archer is asking for Phil Long

<Phillip Long> Hang on'

Phillip Long: it is going to bring to the academic community: they see a way how to deal with this, those within the academic community can reach out to the issuers to inform them

Phillip Long: 100% behind the thought

Task Forces

Confidence methods

Denken Chen: in the current charter we have the confidence method but wonders if we should change the short name an url to VC confidence

Phil Archer: it requires 2 things, a group resolution, help from Ivan but it is also a pain in the neck

Phil Archer: it is on the agenda next week

Denken Chen: we have raised conserns about assurance levels. whats the label of trust we rely on? is it a person identification or a label identification? confidence method along with insurance labels

Barcode & DI

Wesley Smith: barcodes integrity call yesterday, the group intents to move the barcode work bit string status lists feature to the base bit string specs

Wesley Smith: it has need a little discussion with ivan and Manu Sporny next week

<Phil Archer> https://w3c.github.io/vc-bitstring-status-list/

Phil Archer: aknowledged it bitstring status lists exsist as an editors draft, there are things in place to already change it

Phil Archer: will put it on the agenda next week

<Wesley Smith> w3c/vc-barcodes#65

Wesley Smith: folks on this call that are doing threat modelling: we merged a threat model, will share a link to the pull request, please have a look

Digital Payment Credentials Update

<Phil Archer> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/3e6dd8e5-0cfe-447d-a368-182d124ac8f5/

Phil Archer: tomorrow is a meeting federated identity working group and digital payments group. an hour earlier

Phil Archer: everybody from this group can join that call and please do

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