---
title: Credentials Community Group - W3C
description: "to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials."
excerpt: >
    The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials. We focus on a verifiable credential (a set of claims) created by an issuer about a subject—a person, group, or thing—and seek solutions inclusive of approaches such as: self-sovereign identity; presentation of proofs by the bearer; data minimization; and centralized, federated, and decentralized registry and identity systems. Our tasks include drafting and incubating Internet specifications for further standardization and prototyping and testing reference implementations.
permalink: web-standards/w3c/cg/credentials/
redirect_from:
  - web-standards/w3c/ccg/
categories: ["Web Standards"]
tags: ["Verifiable Credentials","Decentralized Identifiers","W3C"]
published: false
---