Call for Participation: Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter Approved; Join the Verifiable Credentials WG

Dear Members of the Verifiable Credentials Working Group,

I'm relaying the following announcement that was sent to W3C Advisory 
Committee Representative earlier today, to notify the group of the new 
charter approval and call for participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Marketing & Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Verifiable Credentials Working Group 
Charter Approved; Join the Verifiable Credentials WG
Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:50:53 +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]

The Director is pleased to announce the recharter of the Verifiable 
Credentials Working Group.
https://www.w3.org/2022/06/verifiable-credentials-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 30 June 2024.

The mission of the Verifiable Credentials Working Group is to make 
expressing, exchanging, and verifying credentials easier and more secure 
on the web.

Please use the following form to have your organization join or re-join 
the group. The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/vc/join

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

If your organization is currently in the group, please note that you 
will need to have it re-join the group as the new charter adds new 
deliverables with licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy. 
This Call for Participation triggers the start of the 45 days grace 
period to re-join. See:
https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#recharter

The group chairs are Kristina Yasuda (Microsoft) and Brent Zundel 
(Avast). The Team Contact is Ivan Herman (15% FTE).

Wayne Chang (Spruce Systems) has stepped down from his role as co-chair 
of the group.

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/

[...]
This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Ivan Herman, Verifiable Credentials WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications