(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Verifiable Credentials Working Group charter

Dear members of the Verifiable Credentials Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Verifiable Credentials Working 
Group charter
Date:  Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:12:42 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


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

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

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [2]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [3] 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://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[3] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development