Considering "certificate" as a core extension

[mireille-raad]

In some of the PPPs or some of the "big contracts" there are different types of certificate involved:

• certificate that the bidder is qualified to participate
• certificate of completion or certificate of compliance

I haven't seen it in a real life example, but I imagine that sometimes items used need to be certified (think ISO or UL or green energy certification) - or in case of services, people provided them need to certified professionals.

Have you looked at having certificate part of the core extensions? do you think it should be developed separately?

[timgdavies]

There has been some discussion of approvals and certification in open-contracting/standard#403 and the work in the Requirements Extension can potentially be used to model a requirement that a supplier needs to be certified in a particular way.

I don't see this becoming a core extension soon, but if there is more that can be done to document implementation approaches for this based on some real data examples that would make sense.

I would suggest moving this over to https://github.com/open-contracting/standard/issues as a discussion there unless there is a specific extension drafted to propose for inclusion in the registry.

[mireille-raad]

good to know that you don't think this can be a core extension.

I am not sure about moving this to the standard issues for discussion... i feel sometimes issues need to be "worthy" - otherwise, you will become overwhelmed with issues to filter and think through.

Maybe you will have "github issues fatigue" if every idea that crosses everyone's mind becomes an issue.

[timgdavies]

Good descriptions of use-cases over in the standard repo are always welcome. Useful to just surface who is interested in what - so don't worry about that.