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Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver's licenses areused to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle,university degrees can be used to assert our level of education,and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries.This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts ofcredentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure,privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

We encourage contributions meeting theContributionGuidelines. While we prefer the creation of issuesand Pull Requests in the GitHub repository, discussions often occuron thepublic-vc-wgmailing list as well.

• Group page:https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/
• charter:https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/charter.html
• Chairs
  • Brent Zundel - @brentzundel
  • Wayne Chang - @wyc

• Data Model
• Use Cases
• Data Model Test Cases

• Public group email archive

1. For now, we will focus only on merging new errata PRs into this repository,but encourage activity related to new features.
2. Once a PR is opened, chairs and editors make judgement call on whetherchanges are substantive or editorial.

   Editorial

   Mark with "editorial" tag, merge into branch "v1.1"

   Substantive

   Mark with "substantial" tag. Bug fixes are merged into separate branch "v1.2". New Features stay around as an open PR.

3. W3C CCG is notified of PRs that will be merged in the next 14 days if thereare no objections.
4. When it's determined a new recommendation should go out, the W3C VerifiableCredentials Working Group members meet, review all the PRs that have beenmerged, and make a formal recommendation if agreement is reached.

• one editorial update (v1.1?)

• one substantive update (v1.2?)

• VC Test Suite Refactoring

• Start planning VC v2 Work, request a rechartering 3-6 months before end ofyear to keep VC WG functioning.

• [v1] Fixing a specific bug
• [v1] Update examples in the spec to make them modern
• [v2] VC@context needs updating, possibly with security vocab modularizedinto smaller components instead of all included into a large context file.