Verifiable Claims Working Group Charter Approved; join the Verifiable Claims Working Group (Call for Participation)

Dear members of the Verifiable Claims Working Group,

I'm relaying the Call for Participation to the Working Group's primarily 
public mailing list, to notify the group of the charter approval and 
call for participation.

Best regards,
Xueyuan



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Verifiable Claims Working Group Charter Approved; join the 
Verifiable Claims Working Group (Call for Participation)
Date:  Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:44:29 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <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 Verifiable
Claims Working Group charter:

   http://www.w3.org/2017/vc/charter.html

This group is chartered until 31 March 2019.

It is currently difficult to express banking account information,
education qualifications, healthcare data, and other sorts of
machine-readable personal information that has been verified by a 3rd
party on the Web. These sorts of data are often referred to as
verifiable claims. The mission  of the Verifiable Claims Working Group
is to make expressing, exchanging, and verifying claims easier and more
secure on the Web. The initial focus is in the area of education.

Please use this form to join the group. The form will also instruct you
how to nominate participants:
   https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/98922/join

The Working Group chairs are Matt Stone (Pearson), Richard Varn (ETS),
and Daniel Burnett (Invited Expert). The initial Team Contact is Liam
Quin for a total of 0.1 FTE.

The co-chairs anticipate a face to face meeting towards the end of June
2017, probably in the USA (depending on Working Group participation).

More information about the Working Group can be found on its home page:
   http://www.w3.org/2017/vc/

[...]

This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process
Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#cfp


Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Liam Quin, Verifiable Claims WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications