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News Media Registration Certificate

Terminology​

For terms not explained in this document, please see Terminology.

  • News Media Registration Certificate: Certificate that guarantees the news media affiliation of the OP-holding organization

News Media Registration Certificate Properties​

It MUST comply with Certificate.

Property​

@context​

REQUIRED. It MUST comply with OP VC Data Model . In addition, the third value MUST be "https://originator-profile.org/ns/cip/v1".

type​

REQUIRED. It MUST comply with ["VerifiableCredential", "Certificate"] .

issuer​

REQUIRED. It is the OP ID of the organization issuing the certificate.

note

Currently, news media registration certificates are issued by OP registries that receive OP applications from news media organizations, so the value of the issuer property is the OP ID of the OP registry.

credentialSubject​

  • id: REQUIRED. It is the OP ID of the organization holding the certificate.
  • type: REQUIRED. Set it to CertificateProperties.
  • description: OPTIONAL. It is a description of this certificate.
  • image: OPTIONAL. It MUST be a JSON-LD Node Object of type image datatype. This property allows you to verify that the image in the Certificate has not been tampered with.
  • certifier: OPTIONAL. The name of the certification authority.
  • verifier: OPTIONAL. The name of the verifier.
  • certificationSystem.id: REQUIRED. Specify the ID of the certification system in URI format.
  • certificationSystem.type: REQUIRED. MUST be CertificationSystem.
  • certificationSystem.name: REQUIRED. The name of the certification system.
  • certificationSystem.description: OPTIONAL. A description of the certification system.
  • certificationSystem.ref: RECOMMENDED. A URL for people to read to find out more about the certification system.

validFrom​

OPTIONAL. Conforms to the Certificate Data Model. If included, please include the start time of the date your media organization registration was established.

Appendix​

Example​

This is non-normative.

Below is a concrete example of a news media registration certificate.

{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2",
    "https://originator-profile.org/ns/credentials/v1",
    "https://originator-profile.org/ns/cip/v1",
    {
      "@language": "en"
    }
  ],
  "type": ["VerifiableCredential", "Certificate"],
  "issuer": "dns:medreg.exp.originator-profile.org",
  "credentialSubject": {
    "id": "dns:pa-holder.example.jp",
    "type": "CertificateProperties",
    "certificationSystem": {
      "id": "urn:uuid:2dbf9afe-af9c-4c6a-b6df-70a9565fec5e",
      "type": "CertificationSystem",
      "name": "Fictitious News Media Organization Registration Center Registration Certificate",
      "description": "This organization holds a registration with the Fictitious News Media Organization Registration Center.",
      "ref": "https://medreg.exp.originator-profile.org/"
    },
    "certifier": "Fictitious News Media Organization Registration Center",
    "image": {
      "id": "https://medreg.exp.originator-profile.org/image.png"
    },
    "validFrom": "2024-03-31T15:00:00Z"
  }
}