The   Verifiable Credentials Working Group   has published a First Public Working Draft today for the   Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 . This specification provides a mechanism to express credentials (driving license, university degree, vaccination documents, etc.) on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable. This First Public Working Group Draft is, essentially, identical to the  Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1  Recommendation, published by the Working Group in March 2022. It is a starting point for the development of what will become the next major revision of the technology. The Working Group welcomes comments via the  GitHub repository issues .

19 November 2019 The  Verifiable Claims Working Group  has published  Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0  as a W3C Recommendation.  Credentials  are a part of our daily lives; driver’s licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts of  credentials  on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

The  Verifiable Claims Working Group  has published a First Public Working Group Note of  Verifiable Credentials Implementation Guidelines 1.0  along with an Updated Working Group Note of  Verifiable Credentials Use Cases . The Implementation Guidelines document provides implementation guidance for the  Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 specification , while the Use Cases document provides use cases for the specification in order to make progress toward possible future standardization and interoperability of both low- and high-stakes claims with the goals of storing, transmitting, and receiving digitally verifiable proof of attributes such as qualifications and achievements.

The  Verifiable Claims Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 .  Credentials  are a part of our daily lives; driver’s licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts of  credentials  on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

28 March 2019 The Verifiable Claims Working Group invites implementations of Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver’s licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.