[Openid-dcp] Joint ISO/DCP work - detail on FIDO WG proposal

[Lukasz Jaromin]

Apart from the NDA, I also wanted to draw your attention to formulations such as "Rationale for extending the invitation" and "annual reviews" that sound fairly subjective and doesn’t help making this relationship stable. Given that this group is a purpose group with a well-defined objective to build the specification of a protocol, why the Invited Parties (at least those at start) shall not be welcome and have the right to contribute till the spec is created and published?

Best
LJ

On 26 Jan 2026, at 08:57, Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen via Openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols <openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols at lists.openid.net> wrote:

I agree with Brian. It is not clear to me why an NDA would be necessary or what the scope of it is (the NDA is not linked anywhere from within the document and an internet search for "FIDO alliance NDA" did not give any useful results).
Since the intent is for the working drafts to be publicly available and for anyone to be able to view and create issues, it is counterproductive to keep the meetings and activities of the working group confidential.
I expect that this will discourage open discussion on issues, since working group members would be unable to disclose any arguments beyond "We discussed it in the working group."
This situation could potentially damage the trustworthiness of the verifiable credentials standards ecosystem as a whole.

Is there an argument for why the working group activities would need to be confidential except that it seems to be required by FIDO alliance procedures?
And does anyone have a link to the content of the NDA?

Cheers,
Frederik

PS. I also did not receive the original email directly. Perhaps something with the attachment.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 at 21:19, Brian Campbell via Openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols <openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols at lists.openid.net<mailto:openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols at lists.openid.net>> wrote:
From my perspective, having spent much of my career working on the development and advancement of open standards, the presence of NDA and confidentiality requirements in this context is fairly problematic.

Requirements of this sort can have a chilling effect — whether intentional or not — and can discourage, limit, or even effectively exclude participation, especially across a diverse set of participants with differing expectations, obligations, and norms around openness and transparency.

In my opinion, restrictions of this nature are antithetical to the notion of a neutral venue and would not be something I could view as an acceptable outcome

Note and apology: I didn't seem to get this message https://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-specs-digital-credentials-protocols/Week-of-Mon-20260105/001098.html directly so am only able to reply with this awkward copy of the content. There might be better ways to do it but none that I am aware of, apologies for the messy message.

Joseph Heenan joseph at authlete.com<http://authlete.com/> @ Thu Jan 8 17:40:20 UTC 2026
Hi all
Please see the attached from FIDO on how they could support the joint working group. This will be discussed further at the 13th Jan joint meeting.
Thanks
Joseph
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