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Credentials Community Group

The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials. We focus on a verifiable credential (a set of claims) created by an issuer about a subject—a person, group, or thing—and seek solutions inclusive of approaches such as: self-sovereign identity; presentation of proofs by the bearer; data minimization; and centralized, federated, and decentralized registry and identity systems. Our tasks include drafting and incubating Internet specifications for further standardization and prototyping and testing reference implementations.

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final reports / licensing info

date name commitments
Verifiable Claims Use Cases 1.0 Licensing commitments
Verifiable Claims Data Model and Representations 1.0 Licensing commitments
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.13 Data Model and Syntaxes Licensing commitments
JSON Web Signature 2020 Licensing commitments
ECDSA Cryptosuite v2019 Licensing commitments
EdDSA Cryptosuite v2020 Licensing commitments
Data Integrity 1.0 Licensing commitments
RDF Dataset Canonicalization Licensing commitments

drafts / licensing info

name
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - Data Model and Syntaxes

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September 2020 Schedule

Heather Vescent | Posted on:

Welcome to the September Schedule for the Credentials Community Group. We have a great line-up of speakers this month. Got something you are interested in presenting on identity, credentials, security or diversity identity/credential adjacent? Get in touch.

  • September 8, 2020: Dakota Gruener will speak on ID2020.
  • September 15, 2020: Anil John will speak on Government Perspectives on DIDs and VCs, lessons learned from funding SSI development.
  • September 22, 2020: Andi Hindle will give us a report out on the 6 week IDENTIVERSE
  • September 29, 2020: Dave Birch will share his latest thoughts on identity, data privacy, and maybe a splash of IoT identity

All meetings are on Tuesday, at 9am PT, Noon ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CET. Anyone can join. We hope you will join us.

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Chairs

  • Will Abramson

    Will Abramson

  • Kimberly Linson

    Kimberly Linson

  • Harrison Tang

    Harrison Tang

Participants (558)

  • Alexander Mikroyannidis
  • Maksim Izmaylov
  • Benjamin Young
  • Peter Rivett
  • Ricardo Cosme
  • Daniel Bennett
  • James Goodell
  • Carolyn Zelikow
  • Todd Alexander
  • Ruben Cessa

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