The W3C Advisory Committee has nominated nine individuals, and is invited today to vote until 1 June 2023 for  six seats  in the  W3C Advisory Board (AB)  election. Please, read the  statements of the nominees . Created in March 1998, the Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the W3C Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. The Advisory Board hears appeals of Member Submission requests that are rejected for reasons unrelated to Web architecture. For several years, the AB has conducted its work in a  public wiki . The elected Members of the Advisory Board participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. Adv...

  The   Verifiable Credentials Working Group   has published the following two First Public Working Drafts: Verifiable Credentials Status List v2021 : This specification describes a privacy-preserving, space-efficient, and high-performance mechanism for publishing status information such as suspension or revocation of Verifiable Credentials. Securing Verifiable Credentials using JSON Web Tokens : This specification defines how Verifiable Credentials can be represented as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) [RFC7519] and secured using JSON Web Signatures (JWS) [RFC7515].