Verifiable Credentials Overview

Hi all,

Ivan Herman, W3C Staff for the Verifiable Credentials Working Group,
has done a great job of putting together a draft of an overview of the
Verifiable Credentials specifications:

https://w3c.github.io/vc-overview

The community has needed an entry point into the ever expanding set of
specifications that are associated with Verifiable Credentials for
some time now, and thankfully, we now have that document. It is a
rough draft, needs some work, but that's where each of you come in.

Our hope is that this document is the first one you recommend to
technologists (CTOs, developers, IT Managers) that want to learn more
about Verifiable Credentials. Please read through it and see if you
would be comfortable sending it to a technologist that want a quick
overview. If there are parts of it that you'd like changed, preferably
by REMOVING content (we're trying to keep it short), please raise an
issue on the Github repository on what you'd like changed and why:

https://github.com/w3c/vc-overview/issues

We know that similar documentation is needed for the general public,
and we hope people roll up their sleeves and write that stuff, but our
focus right now is ensuring that more technologists are able to read
about the details such that they can convey the benefits to the
general public.

We hope this document will help each of you trying to introduce more
technologists to Verifiable Credentials. There is room for
improvement, please help us improve the document above.

-- manu

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Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
https://www.digitalbazaar.com/

Received on Thursday, 16 May 2024 13:44:43 UTC