W3C DID Methods Working Group (proposed charter)

W3Cchartercontext entry

Verified 2026-10-13. Status as of 2026-10-13. All entries.

Status

Proposed charter in Advisory Committee review (2026-09-30); public comments invited through 2026-10-28.

Relevance

Mission: "to standardize DID Methods that use Web technologies"; a separate maintenance charter for the existing Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group (WG), whose mission includes DID Resolution, went into refinement on 2026-08-10 and was sent to the Advisory Committee on 2026-10-07, with public comments invited through 2026-11-05 (see w3c-did-wg).

Committed next

None declared in the sources read.

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/2026/09/proposed-did-methods-wg-charter.html normative text, read 2026-10-02
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Sep/0011.html official decision or commitment, read 2026-10-13
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Aug/0003.html official decision or commitment, read 2026-10-13
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Oct/0008.html official decision or commitment, read 2026-10-13

Overlaps

W3C DID Resolution, W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group (proposed charter)

Neighbours in the map

Solid lines: overlaps declared by one of the two entries. Dashed lines, coloured by seam: entries named by the same seam (S1 to S4) in the seams note. Every node is a link.

Evidence and coverage

Read

Charter read in full on 2026-10-02; announcement of 2026-09-30 read on 2026-10-03 and again on 2026-10-13, with the announcements of 2026-08-10 (start of refinement of the DID WG maintenance charter) and 2026-10-07 (proposed DID WG charter sent to the Advisory Committee).

Not read

The public-review-comments list.

Not found

Not found in the charter text, 2026-10-02: agent, AI, commerce, merchant, payment, delegat (word stem).