{
 "id": "w3c-did-methods-wg",
 "name": "W3C DID Methods Working Group (proposed charter)",
 "org": "W3C",
 "kind": "charter",
 "tier": "context",
 "status": "Proposed charter in Advisory Committee review (2026-09-30); public comments invited through 2026-10-28.",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "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).",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.w3.org/2026/09/proposed-did-methods-wg-charter.html",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Sep/0011.html",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "decision"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Aug/0003.html",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "decision"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Oct/0008.html",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "decision"
  }
 ],
 "overlaps": [
  "w3c-did-resolution",
  "w3c-did-wg"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "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)."
 },
 "url": "https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/entries/w3c-did-methods-wg.html",
 "source_url": "https://github.com/frmoretto/agentic-standards-map/blob/a1ae242918902e0768e0e6a79bd2bffc4ac5cfa3/entries/w3c-did-methods-wg.yaml",
 "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}