- From: Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:18:03 +0800
- To: public-new-work@w3.org
Hello,
With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a
draft Verifiable Credentials Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/vc-charter-2026/
The mission of the current charter of the Working Group [1] is to
complete and maintain the W3C Recommendations, as well as related Notes,
in the area of Verifiable Credentials published under the previous
charters of the Working Group. The draft new charter, while continuing
the maintenance activity, proposes to publish new specifications to
support, based on existing deployment experiences, various use cases of
the Verifiable Credentials ecosystem.
We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/vc-charter-2026/issues
W3C Members may discuss on the member-confidential mailing list
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>.
Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.
The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until
approximately 2026-02-01.
If you should have any questions or need further information, please
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>.
This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation
For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications
[1] https://www.w3.org/2024/10/vc-wg-charter.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development
Received on Friday, 12 December 2025 07:18:07 UTC