Re: Introduction and interest in contributing to the Credentials Community Group

Hi Amir,

Thanks for reaching out!

Great to hear about your background and interests, your contributions to
the work of this community would be gratefully received.

I am one of the chairs of the CCG, along with Mahmoud and Denken (cc'd).
Feel free to reach out directly to us if you have any questions.

You can find details about all our meetings on our website:
https://w3c-ccg.org/. We have a weekly call every Tuesday at 5pm GMT, which
is 10.30pm your time I believe, so not ideal I appreciate.
The calls are also made available as recordings sent to the mailing list so
you can catch up that way. If you haven't already, you can join the CCG and
subscribe to the mailing list here -
https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/join

Also, Denken, our newest chair, is based in Taiwan and is looking to
organise some additional APAC friendly calls that should fall at a more
reasonable time for you.
Definitely look out for those and if you have any speaker recommendations,
or would like to present yourself even, then reach out to Denken. It would
be great to hear more
about identity developments within India.

Finally, if you are working for an organisation who is a member of the W3C
you may want to consider joining the Verifiable Credentials Working Group
which is just restarting up (https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/vc/)
and the Decentralized Identifier Working Group (
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/did/) which is wrapping up. Both groups are
going to need to do some work on threat modelling as part of their security
analysis,
Joe and Simone (also cc'd) are currently finalising the threat modelling
guide in the Security Interest Group https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/security/.

All the best,
Will Abramson

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM Amir Hameed <amsaalegal@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Members of the Credentials Community Group,
>
>
> I hope this message finds you well.
>
> My name is Amir Hameed. I am a systems engineer and protocol researcher
> based in the Jammu & Kashmir region of India, working on cryptographic
> infrastructure, decentralized identity systems, and secure protocol design
> for web technologies.
>
>
> I would like to introduce myself to the group and express my interest in
> contributing to the technical discussions and ongoing work related to
> Verifiable Credentials and their long-term security, interoperability, and
> deployment models.
>
>
> By way of background, my recent and ongoing work includes:
>
>
>    -
>
>    UDNA Community Group (under development): early design and research
>    work around next-generation decentralized network and identity primitives,
>    including identifier lifecycle modeling and trust registry architectures.
>    -
>
>    Sirraya One: a real-world implementation of a DID–VC–JWT bridge for
>    web technologies, focused on practical credential issuance, verification,
>    and integration with modern application stacks.
>    -
>
>    Zero-Knowledge Proof systems: design and implementation of a
>    challenge–response authentication mechanism using ZKP constructions for
>    privacy-preserving verification.
>    -
>
>    Quantum-safe cryptography: development of a full software
>    implementation of QKD protocols (including decoy-state BB84, entropy
>    estimation, error correction, and security reporting) alongside
>    architectural work on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) integration and
>    hybrid trust models.
>    -
>
>    Protocol security engineering: threat modeling and adversarial
>    analysis at both protocol and network layers, including considerations
>    around replay attacks, key compromise, registry trust assumptions,
>    gossip/replication models, and cross-domain verification.
>
>
> My primary interest within the Credentials Community Group is contributing
> to work related to:
>
>
>    -
>
>    credential lifecycle modeling at protocol level,
>    -
>
>    cryptographic trust assumptions and key management for high-assurance
>    credentials,
>    -
>
>    interoperability between DID methods and VC data models,
>    -
>
>    future-proofing credentials against post-quantum threats, and
>    -
>
>    rigorous threat models for decentralized credential ecosystems.
>
>
> While this work is being carried out from the J&K region of India, the
> intent is to contribute to open, globally relevant standards and to support
> the broader web and identity community through practical system
> implementations and protocol research.
>
>
> I look forward to learning from the group’s discussions and contributing
> where my experience may be useful. If appropriate, I would be glad to share
> technical documentation or implementation details of any of the above
> efforts for feedback and collaboration.
>
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Amir Hameed
>