Date

Attendees

  • Donny Winston, Karen Hanson, Tom Creighton, John Kunze

Goals

Spec and standard progress

Discussion items

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Announcements

Anyone know of a good image generator, eg, for ARKA graphics?
dw: maybe "stable diffusion" or "dall-e"

Any news items we should blog about? Any calls for papers, submission deadlines, upcoming meetings we should note? Please add to Calendar of events.

  • Please review PIDwijzer post
  • Anyone traveling to the upcoming meetings where ARK tutorial has been submitted?

kh: i'll be at ipres

Standardization update

  • no conflict with URN namespace registration
  • no conflict with URI scheme registration (leave alone?)
  • no conflict with https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/tree/master/ARK
  • for RFC, use of /.well-known will be required
    • heavy (each ARK) or
    • light (examples: resolver config, which seems typical (RFC6690 CoRE, RFC6415 host metadata, RFC8414 OAuth metadata, Keybase, W3C DID config, W3C Tabular data for web), 
  • register under W3C DID (Decentralized ID)?

all: no objection to URN namespace registration
tc: the heavy use of .well-known seems unnecessary given the precedent, eg, how everyone uses it for OAuth config
jk: I think we need to understand whether we would have to support resolution of every ARK from /.well-known/ark:... It might work if each resolver could continue to support ARKs from its own chosen URL path prefix
all: the lightweight use of /.well-known is ok
dw: i like the idea of using .well-known to opt into ARKs
tc: yes, ok to move in this direction
kh: yes, this is good and straightforward
jk: does anyone have time to pursue W3 DID registration?
dw: I brought it up, but don't really have time

Draft spec transition plan

  • Can we come up with strawperson times T0, T1, T2, ...?

tc: accepting noslash ARKs needs to come before producing them
tc: I recommend we get the task list (a) complete and (b) dependency-ordered before trying to assign times
tc: ACTION I will review with this in mind
kh: recommend we prioritize clearing the plan with the major ARK producers

Action items

  • Tom Creighton will review the transition plan with an eye toward completeness and dependency ordering