{"id":2694,"date":"2025-05-15T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:17:45","slug":"w3c-verifiable-credentials-2-0-specifications-are-now-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0 Specifications are Now Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"plain\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/w3c_home.png\" alt=\"W3C logo\" \/><\/a><\/span>As announced by the W3C, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/news\/2025\/the-verifiable-credentials-2-0-family-of-specifications-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation\/\">the Verifiable Credentials 2.0 family of specifications is now a W3C Recommendation<\/a>.  The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/policies\/process\/#RecsW3C\">W3C Recommendations<\/a> that I was an editor for are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2025\/REC-vc-data-model-2.0-20250515\/\">Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2025\/REC-vc-jose-cose-20250515\/\">Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2025\/REC-cid-1.0-20250515\/\">Controlled Identifiers v1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I joined the VC 2.0 journey in 2022 with the goal of there being a simple, secure, standards-based way to sign W3C Verifiable Credentials.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2025\/REC-vc-jose-cose-20250515\/\">VC-JOSE-COSE specification<\/a> accomplishes that &#8211; defining how to secure VC Data Model payloads with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/rfc\/rfc7515.html\">JOSE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/doc\/draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt\/\">SD-JWT<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/rfc\/rfc9052.html\">COSE<\/a> signatures.  <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=2603\">As I wrote<\/a> when the Proposed Recommendations were published, while I&#8217;m admittedly not a fan of JSON-LD, to the extent that Verifiable Credentials using the JSON-LD-based VC Data Model are in use, I was committed to there being a solid VC-JOSE-COSE specification so there is a simple, secure, standards-based way to secure these credentials.  That goal is now accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Particular thanks go to my co-editors of VC-JOSE-COSE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cohengabe\/\">Gabe Cohen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mprorock\/\">Mike Prorock<\/a>, former editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/or13b\/\">Orie Steele<\/a>, and working group chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bzundel\/\">Brent Zundel<\/a> for the significant work they all both put in throughout the journey.  And of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/manusporny\/\">Manu Sporny<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/iherman\">Ivan Herman<\/a> were always diligent about moving things along.<\/p>\n<p>One of my personal mottos is &#8220;Finishing things matters&#8221;.  This is now finished.  As the song says, &#8220;What a long, strange trip it&#8217;s been&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced by the W3C, the Verifiable Credentials 2.0 family of specifications is now a W3C Recommendation. The new W3C Recommendations that I was an editor for are: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE Controlled Identifiers v1.0 I joined the VC 2.0 journey in 2022 with the goal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,28,27,25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbor","category-claims","category-cryptography","category-json","category-specifications","category-w3c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}