Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter extended until 30 September 2023

Dear members of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing list 
to notify the group of its charter extension.

Best regards,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  VOTE by 2023-09-08/09: Proposed Charter for the Decentralized 
Identifier Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Date:  Mon, 7 Aug 2023 15:19:32 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed charter for renewing the 
Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2023/07/did-wg-charter.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/did-wg-2023/

The deadline for responses is 03:59 UTC on 9 September 2023 (23:59, 
Boston time on 8 September) [0].

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that 
enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any 
subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract 
entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to 
typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may 
be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and 
certificate authorities.

The mission of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group [1] is to 
maintain the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification [2] and 
related Working Group Notes. The WG will also seek consensus around the 
best way to achieve effective interoperability, possibly through the 
specification of DID Resolution and/or DID methods.

There is not consensus among the current working group participants as 
to whether the charter should permit work on the specification of DID 
methods.  This charter proposal includes the option for the group to do 
that work if there is sufficient interest.  This follows the director’s 
advice in the DID Core 1.0 Recommendation decision [3] to include the 
specification of DID methods in the future scope of the work.

The proposed group chairs are Brent Zundel (Gen) and Dan Burnett 
(Invited Expert). The proposed team resource for the group is 0.1 FTE.

Since the group scope has changed (new potential deliverables) in the 
new charter, the Advisory Committee Representatives of current 
participants will need to have their organizations re-join the group if 
the revised charter gets approved. To see all changes relative to the 
current charter, follow this link [4].

The current charter [5] is extended until 30 September 2023 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [1], 
including information about group Chairs, Staff Contact, and 
instructions for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org>, DID WG Team Contact.

The horizontal review of the charter is available as a Strategy Github 
repository issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/376

This charter review and extension follow sections 4.3 and 4.5 of the W3C 
Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20230612/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Pierre-Antoine Champin, DID WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230908T2359&p1=43
[1] https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
[3] https://www.w3.org/2022/06/DIDRecommendationDecision.html
[4] 
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F12%2Fdid-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F07%2Fdid-wg-charter.html
[5] https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html