Re: Renaming the Verifiable Issuers/Verifiers spec

Hi Manu

It is great to see that this spec is progressing at pace now, and a lot 
more people are involved in the work. Isaac and myself progressed the 
draft when there was next to zero interest in it, but now I feel 
confident that it will progress to a full W3C recommendation without 
needed any further involvement from myself. Given that I am now fully 
retired and have other interests to pursue that I put off during my many 
many years of work, I would like to hand in my resignation as an editor 
of this spec and leave it in your very capable hands.

Wishing you and the group all the best for the future

David

On 25/02/2026 01:47, Manu Sporny wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The group that is working on the specification currently known as
> "Verifiable Issuers and Verifiers" has made significant progress over
> the past several months to the point where the specification feels
> like it has a fairly stable shape. Stable enough to rename the
> specification, anyway.
>
> The specification has progressed to be able to allow an individual,
> organization, collective, or nation state to:
>
> 1. Publish a set of recognized entities (identifiers, legal name,
> logo, website, description, etc.)
> 2. For each recognized entity, also include a list of recognized
> actions that the entity is known to perform (such as "issue a college
> degree that matches this JSON Schema").
> 3. For each recognized entity, specify that the entity is also
> recognized in an external "trust list" format such as EU ETSI Trust
> Lists, X509 Certificate Authority lists, or another
> RecognizedEntityCredential.
>
> You can view some examples of what a recognized entity credential
> looks like here:
>
> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/verifiable-issuers-verifiers/#example-a-set-of-known-universities-in-a-particular-nation
>
> We want to rename the specification as it has outgrown the current
> title. We want the new title to quickly convey that the specification
> provides the capabilities to achieve the three things above. We don't
> want to use words like "trust", "authorized", "list", or anything that
> conveys centralization or an uneven power dynamic of any kind. The
> current proposed titles are:
>
> Recognized Actions
> Verifiable Recognition
>
> We're going to collect suggestions through the CCG mailing list, and
> then send a ranked choice poll out to the mailing list so that we can
> get some good data before we pick a new name. We want the name to be
> accurate enough, but also resonate with people that are not familiar
> with all of the minutiae of this community.
>
> With all that said: What other titles do you think we should consider?
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny -https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>