WHO SVC test suite coordination?

[msporny]

In case those maintaining this repository were not aware, a few of the members in the W3C Credentials Community Group have been working on a Vaccination Certificate Vocabulary that is compatible with the WHO SVC work. The W3C CCG has also been working on a Verifiable Credentials HTTP API.

For those that are not familiar with the W3C CCG, it is the group (consisting of 400+ members) that created and standardized the Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifier global standards (among many others that are currently being developed). These standards are used by a large number of digital vaccination certificate projects around the world (EU, US, NZ, etc.).

We (Digital Bazaar) thought it might be interesting to see if we could create an interoperability test suite for the WHO Smart Vaccination Card work using the tools listed above.

The test suite covers 28 types of vaccines that are covered in the SVC work, including Measles, Smallpox, Polio, Yellow Fever, COVID-19, and others.

Please note:

• This is all experimental; it's not meant to step on any toes (the 40+ other vaccination certificate projects).
• The solution is designed to address all goals listed in the recently published WHO document on SVCs.
• The certificates, dictionaries, and tests will track changes WHO SVC work (and are designed to be rapidly regenerated and tested).

With that said, we've been able to achieve the following:

• A test suite containing 1,624 tests covering the 28 vaccine types in the WHO SVC dictionary.
• 7 independent vendor implementations issuing and verifying each others WHO Smart Vaccination Cards.
• 1,623 passing tests demonstrating objective results wrt. technical interoperability.

You can view the latest Vaccination Certificate test suite report here:

https://w3id.org/vaccination/interop-reports

The announcement to the W3C Credentials Community Group is here:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Apr/0081.html

How can we best coordinate the test suite work with WHO?

[litlfred]

hi @msporny are you on chat.fhir.org? there is a #svc stream there and we can coordinate there.

[msporny]

hi @msporny are you on chat.fhir.org? there is a #svc stream there and we can coordinate there.

I am, and see that you've messaged through those channels -- happy to pick up the conversation there.