Re: Renaming the Verifiable Issuers/Verifiers spec

+1 to Steve Capell's comment. I think that in addition (or where
impractical, instead) of issuing a VC listing the registry entries, the
registration authority should issue a VC to each registered entity that
they could in turn publish. I think that should be within the scope of this
effort.

Taking that a step further (although outside of the scope of what I
understand this specification covers) an entity with a DID could publish
that credential they get from the registry authority in their
*<did>/whois* Verifiable
Presentation, for anyone to see. Given a DID, anyone can resolve
"<did>/whois" to get verifiable data from "authorities" (whoever that might
be) about that DID and the entity controlling it.  This is a link to the
did:webvh spec where the <did>/whois concept is described --
https://identity.foundation/didwebvh/v1.0/#the-whois-use-case.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 7:34 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 9:25 PM Christopher Allen
> <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:
> > What is the status of credentials/v2 schema that is used by these
> examples?
>
> The v2 context shipped on May 15 2025 when the VCDM v2.0 spec shipped.
> It's locked in place and will never change (the cryptographic hash for
> that context is published in the VCDM v2.0 spec):
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/#base-context
>
> That said, you are correct that the example will need to be updated to
> use a newer v2.1 (or later) context when we ship this particular
> specification. We would also ship a "side car" context for those that
> want to backport the feature into VCDM v1.0 or v2.0 VCs (though, we
> expect the most common path is that developers will just upgrade to
> the newest v2.1+ context).
>
> > Is this a deliverable of this group, or an existing schema?
>
> The contexts ship with the specs, so they are in scope... and
> presuming the 2026 VCWG Charter is approved at the end of the week,
> all of that will be in scope for the new VCWG.
>
> Did that answer your question adequately, Christopher?
>
> -- manu
>
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> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>
>

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Stephen Curran
Principal, Cloud Compass Computing, Inc.