Call for Participation in High Assurance Profile for W3C VCDM 2.0 Community Group

The High Assurance Profile for W3C VCDM 2.0 Community Group has been launched:

Increasingly, regulations require verifiable credentials for high-assurance use cases. For example, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires data governance and record-keeping for high-risk systems (Art. 10 and 12), and the EU Machinery Regulation covers self-learning safety functions. The W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model (VCDM) can express linked, open-world evidence, but a verifier can rely on it only if contexts are pinned, securing mechanisms are fixed, and status is checkable.

The mission of this group is to develop a High Assurance Profile (HAIP) for the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model (VCDM) to create a verifiable evidence layer that agents, industrial AI, and robots can trust, anchored in the eIDAS trust framework (and similar frameworks).

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2026-11-11 by Phil Archer. The following people supported its creation: Ivan Herman, Manu Sporny, Phil Archer, Michael Shea and Carsten Stöcker. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.

We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us at site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team