Credentials Community Group Launched

With your support, the Credentials Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/credentials/

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

This group was originally proposed on 2014-08-06
by Manu Sporny. The following people supported its
creation: 
      Manu Sporny
      Dave Longley
      David Lehn
      Melvin Carvalho
      timothy holborn
  
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A "credential" is a qualification, achievement, quality, or piece of
information about an entity’s background such as a name, government
ID, payment provider, home address, or university degree. 


The purpose of the Credentials Community Group is to discuss, research,
document, prototype and test credential storage and exchange systems for
the Web. This work is done in order to make progress toward possible
future standardization and interoperability of both low and high-stakes
credentials. The goal of this Group is to forge a path for a secure,
decentralized system of credentials that would empower both individual
people and organizations on the Web to store, transmit, and receive
digitally verifiable proof of qualifications and achievements. In
addition to documentation, this Group collaborates on and shares various
proof-of-concept solutions and components through open source methods,
unencumbered by patents or royalties.


In general, this Community Group provides an inclusive venue where
credentialing solutions, regardless of their origin, can be incubated,
evaluated, refined, and tested. The focus of the group is to promote
credentialing innovations based primarily on their technical merit. This
approach invites competing technical designs to be submitted and
incubated in the same group. The hope is that this strategy will lead to
either the merging of the best aspects of each technical design, or a
clear differentiation emerging between alternative designs.
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Wednesday, 6 August 2014 18:25:41 UTC