Chainpoint Community Group created

The Chainpoint Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/chainpoint/

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 The mission of this group is to establish a standard for creating a
universally verifiable proof of any data, file, or series of events, by
anchoring data to the blockchain and other sources. This allows anyone
to prove the data existed at a point in time and has not been modified.



 The group will publish and formalize the  Chainpoint specification  as
a stable reference, maintain a test suite, and take feedback and use
cases for the future evolution for the specification. 


 The Chainpoint Community Group will coordinate with the  Blockchain
Community Group  for general standardization of blockchain-related
technology, and will operate according to the  Chainpoint CG charter .
You can read more about Chainpoint, its history, and goals, on our 
recent blog post announcing Chainpoint 2.0 . 


 This group invites participants who are actively developing and
deploying proof-of-existence, timestamping, and data integrity
solutions, who are skilled in blockchain technologies, and who can work
on use cases for Chainpoint and related technologies. 

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To join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/chainpoint/join

If you do not have one already, you will need a W3C account to join:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

This is a community initiative. W3C's hosting of this group does not
imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair

For more information about getting started in the new group, see:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group

and good practice for running a group:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/good-practice-for-running-a-group/

We invite you to share news of this new group in 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

Received on Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:14:52 UTC