Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter Approved; Call for Participation

Dear all,

I'm relaying the announcement to the Decentralized Identifier Working 
Group's primary public mailing list, to notify the group of the charter 
approval and call for participation.

Best regards,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing and Communications


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter Approved; Call 
for Participation
Date:  Thu, 5 Sep 2019 21:43:14 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC:  chairs@w3.org



Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,

The Director is pleased to announce the approval of the Decentralized 
Identifier Working Group charter:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/09/did-wg-charter.html

This group is chartered until 30 September 2021.

The mission of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group is to 
standardize the DID URI scheme, the data model and syntax of DID 
Documents, which contain information related to DIDs that enable the 
aforementioned initial use cases, and the requirements for DID Method 
specifications.

Use the following form to join the group. The form will also instruct 
you how to nominate participants:
   https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/117488/join

The Working Group chairs are Daniel Burnett (Consensys) and Brent Zundel 
(Evernym). The initial Team Contact is Ivan Herman with 0.2 FTE.

The group will have its first face-to-face meeting during TPAC 2019:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/09/TPAC/schedule.html

More information about the group can be found on its home page:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/

[...]

This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead,
Ivan Herman, Decentralized Identifier WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications