W3C Credentials Community Group Work Items

The following work items are managed by this group.

Table of Contents

• Completed Community Work Items
  • Registries
  • Specifications
  • Notes
  • Reports
  • Informal Activities
• Current Work Items
  • Ongoing Community Drafts
    • Registries
  • Community Reports
    • Community Specifications
    • Community Notes
    • Community Commentary
• Archived Work Items

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Completed Community Work Items

Completed Registries

The following registries were incubated in this group and have now been moved to other groups

• DID Method Registry - Registry for DID methods

Completed Specifications

The following specifications were incubated in this group and are now undergoing international standardization:

• Verifiable Claims Use Cases 1.0 - Use Cases for claims that are cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and automatically verifiable
• Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0 - A standard mechanism for expressing items such as driver’s licenses, employee ID cards, proofs of age, and other sorts of claims in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and automatically verifiable.
• Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Working Draft - A new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. This effort is continuing at the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group

Completed Notes

• DID Use Cases - Incubated in the Credentials Community Group and now maintained by the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group
• DID Explainer - Incubated in the Credentials Community Group and now maintained by the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group

Completed Reports

• Verifiable Credentials Lifecycle - This report was incubated in this group and has been integrated into the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model. Closed 2018-01-16

Completed Informal Activities

• CCG Survey
• Joram 1.0.0
• WoT Scenario

Current Work Items

Task Forces

Work Item	Github Repo	Meetings
did-resolution	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-resolution	Thursdays 1-2pm PT details
vc-ed	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-ed	Mondays 8-9am PT details
Confidential Storage	https://github.com/decentralized-identity/confidential-storage	Thursdays 1-2pm PT / 4-5pm ET details (pass code is 20 three times)

Ongoing Community Drafts

Registries

Work Item	Github Repo	Current Stage
VC Extension Registry	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-extension-registry	Rough Draft
Linked Data Cryptographic Suite Registry	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/ld-cryptosuite-registry	Rough Draft
Linked Data Key Format Registry	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/blob/4eafb19e5c66b9d54e31d88460b89bdc00a07d80/ld-keys.html	Rough Draft
Security Vocab	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/security-vocab	Rough Draft

Community Reports

Community Specifications

Work Item	Github Repo	Current Stage	Next Stage	Target
did.actor	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did.actor	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
traceability-vocab	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/traceability-vocab	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
citizenship-vocab	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/citizenship-vocab	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
vc-http-api	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-http-api	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
vc-status-rl-2020	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-status-rl-2020	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
vp-request-spec	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vp-request-spec	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
vc-di-bbs2023	https://w3c.github.io/vc-di-bbs/	Released Draft	Released Draft	?
blockchain-links	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/blockchain-links	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
btcr method	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/didm-btcr	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
did:web method	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-web	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
did:key method	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-key	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
WebKMS	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/webkms	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
Object Capabilities for Linked Data	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/zcap-ld	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	?
Credential Handler API and Polyfill	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/credential-handler-api/ https://github.com/digitalbazaar/credential-handler-polyfill	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	TBD WG
DID Resolution	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-resolution	Released Draft 0.2.0	Published Draft	?
Multihash	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/multihash	Released Draft 0.1	Published Draft	IETF
Hashlink	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/hashlink/	Released Draft 0.1	Published Draft	IETF
Multibase	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/multibase	Released Draft 0.1	Published Draft	IETF
Verifiable Credentials JSON Schemas	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-json-schemas	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	?
Universal Wallet Interop Spec	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/universal-wallet-interop-spec	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	?
Linked Data Signature ed25519 2020	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/lds-ed25519-2020	Rough Draft
Verifiable Conditions	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/verifiable-conditions	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	?
Traceability Interoperability Profile	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/traceability-interop	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	?
Ethereum EIP712 Signature 2021	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/ethereum-eip712-signature-2021-spec	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	?
did-pkh	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-pkh	Rough Draft		?
did-tz	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-tz	Rough Draft		?
BBS LDP JSON pointer normalization	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/BBS-LDP-JSON-Pointer-Normalization	Rough Draft		?
Merkle Disclosure2021	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/Merkle-Disclosure-2021	Rough Draft		?
Verifiable Driver’s License Vocabulary & Test Suite	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vdl-vocab https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vdl-test-suite	Rough Draft	Unofficial Draft - Vocab Unofficial Report	?
Verifiable Credentials Refresh 2021	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-refresh-2021	Rough Draft		?
ECDSA Secpr1 Cryptosuite v2019	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/di-ecdsa-secpr1-2019	Rough Draft	Unofficial Draft	?

Community Notes

Work Item	Github Repo	Current Stage	Next Stage	Target
Linked Data Signatures for JWS	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/lds-jws2020	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft
VC Examples	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-examples	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft
DID Primer	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-primer	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft	DID WG
DID Engagement spreadsheet	None	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	DID WG
Privacy & Security Requirements for Credentials Ecosystem	None	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft	VCWG 2.0
CCG 101	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/CCG101	Started 12/2020
VC API Use Cases	[https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-api-use-cases]
VC ED Use Cases	[https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-ed-use-cases]	Started 01/2021
VC ED Models	[https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-ed-models]	Started 10/2020
VC API Use Cases	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/vc-api-use-cases	Rough Draft		?
Co-operative Credentials	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/Co-operative-Credentials	Rough Draft

Community Commentary

Work Item	Github Repo	Current Stage	Next Stage
W3C CCG Process	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/w3c-ccg-process	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft
Registries Process	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/registries-process	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft
Data Minimization & Selective Disclosure	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/data-minimization	Unreleased Draft	Released Draft
Engagement Model (Amira)	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/amira	Rough Draft	Unreleased Draft
NIST Digital Identity Guidelines Comments	https://github.com/w3c-ccg/nist-dig-comments	Rough Draft

Archived Work Items

• Functional Identity