Advance notice: Work in progress on the renewal of the Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter

Hello,

This is an advance notice that the W3C Team is currently working on a 
revised charter for the Verifiable Credentials Working Group:
   https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/455

The draft charter is available at:
   https://w3c.github.io/vc-wg-charter/

The current charter of the Working Group expires in June 2024. The group 
has published a number of Candidate Recommendations, and is currently 
busy finalizing the test suites and collecting implementation 
information. The revised charter has therefore two goals:

1. Give time to the Working Group to finalize the Recommendation track 
documents. The goal is to publish them in January 2025.
2. Set up a maintenance course for the Recommendations as they are 
published.

Accordingly, the scope of the draft new charter is identical to the 
current charter, except for the following additional paragraph:

     "Once all the planned Recommendations have been published, the Working
     Group will continue in maintenance mode to handle errata. No new
     Recommendations are planned. Class 4 changes for Recommendations 
published
     by the Working Group are out of scope, except if serious security 
issues
     come to the fore that require changes in a Recommendation."

We welcome input and feedback on the draft charter. If you wish to make 
your comments public, you're welcome to raise comments at:
   https://github.com/w3c/vc-wg-charter

W3C Members may also discuss on the member-confidential mailing list 
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>.

A formal Advisory Committee Review for this charter is expected in mid-May.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Team Contact for the 
Verifiable Credentials Working Group.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#WGCharterDevelopment

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2024 09:49:32 UTC