2024-03-07 X.509 VID TF Meeting Notes

Owned by Eric Scouten
Last updated: Mar 20, 2024
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Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

TimeAgenda ItemLeadNotes
3 min
  • Start recording
  • Welcome & antitrust notice
  • New member introductions
  • Agenda review
Leads
  • Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
  • New Members:
2 minReview of previous action itemsLeads
20 minsReview of did:x509 conversion to Spec-Up format

Eric Scouten 

As discussed in prior meetings, I have converted the Microsoft draft did:x509 spec to the ToIP Spec-Up format. Please review here: https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-did-x509-method-specification/pull/1

✅ ACTION: Merge PR #1 as starting point.

✅ ACTION: Eric Scouten to copy the text from Microsoft granting permission to use the spec into meeting notes. Also note that original spec was MIT licensed.

Message received from Maik Reichert of Microsoft (lead author of previous did:x509 specification) on 19 January 2024:

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your email.

Please feel free to build on the draft did:x509 spec. I’m not working in this space anymore but I don’t have any concerns or objections.

✅ (Pending #2) ACTION: Eric Scouten to copy TF charter into Scope section and then call for use case contributions.

🔄 (Issue #3) ACTION: Eric Scouten to write a use case for Content Authenticity use case.

🔄 (Issue #4) ACTION: Eric Scouten and Tim Bouma to review section 10.1 (Percent-encoding) to see if that can be rewritten in terms of RFC 3986.

🔄 (Issue #5) ACTION: Tim Bouma to review section 10 for relevance.

🔄 (Issue #6) ACTION: Flag for future review: Section 11 (DID resolution option).

🔄 (Issue #7) ACTION: Eric Scouten to review Spec-Up formatting for x-refs and RFC references.

🔄 (Issue #8) ACTION: Eric Scouten write up GitHub issue explore Rego vs alternative descriptions of policy.

🔄 (Issue #9) ACTION: Eric Scouten to write up GitHub issue about section 13.1 (identifier ambiguity) and consult Charles Lanahan . Perhaps related to section 10?

🔄 (Issue #10) ACTION: Eric Scouten to write up GitHub about section 12.2 to understand timestamp of issuance.

15 minsReview of did:x509 open issues and PRs

Eric Scouten 

The Microsoft draft did:x509 had a number of open issues and two open PRs. Determine which issues remain relevant and of interest to this group and copy them over if appropriate. 

✅ ACTION: Eric Scouten to bring over the following issues: #3, #4, #5 (with PR #7), #6 (with PR #8).

🔄 (Issue #18) ACTION: Wenjing Chu to research documentation regarding browser lookup of X.509 certificates and how that might relate to the read operation in this spec.

5 mins
  • Review decisions/action items
  • Planning for next meeting 
Leads

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