- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:40:34 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhKLsSZf5SnFyWjHR6epZa5aJJKRcgJuxzas=aFXZOMViA@mail.gmail.com>
On 23 February 2016 at 09:13, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > As many of you know, the Web Payments Interest Group meeting had an item > on its agenda today about whether or not to approve continuing the work > on verifiable claims by drafting a charter and a set of minimal use > cases for circulation among the W3C membership and potential new W3C > members. A positive vote would see our work go to the next stage, a > negative vote would have set us back a year or more. So, the stakes were > pretty high for today. > > It was a nail-biter, lots of discussion and negotiation around > verifiable claims throughout the entire day. It felt like it wasn't > going to happen when we went into the voting stage. > > The final vote was initiated during the last 60 seconds of the Web > Payments Interest Group meeting. The final vote was something like 20 to > 0 with a handful of people abstaining. We did it! > > Thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far! It was really great > to see everyone's hard work pay off in the end. > > We're on to the next leg of the process - drafting a charter and set of > minimal use cases and socializing that among the people that might join > the work (and the people that might oppose the work). We have roughly 2 > weeks to prep something to circulate at the W3C Advisory Committee > Meeting at the end of March, so we're going to have to roll up our > sleeves and put in some solid work starting next Tuesday. > > But first - make sure to celebrate - this is really great news! > Congrats! An awesome amount of work went into this. Is the voting public? > > -- manu > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: Identity Credentials and Web Login > http://manu.sporny.org/2014/identity-credentials/ > >
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