W3C Digital Credentials API

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Formal name

W3C - Digital Credentials, Marcos Caceres, Tim Cappalli and Sam Goto, 20 February 2025, Draft Community Group Report

Overview

This document specifies an API to enable user agents to mediate access to, and presentation of, digital credentials such as a driver's license, government-issued identification card, and/or other types of digital credential.

The API builds on Credential Management Level 1 as a means by which to request a digital credential from a user agent or underlying platform.

Work Plan

This document is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. It is still an unofficial proposal.

The EC will discuss this standard with W3C and assess the possibility of referring to this technical specification in the Implementing Acts.

Tasks

• The EC will discuss this document with W3C.

Alerts

• A new W3C Editor's Draft was published on 18 June 2025

References

• https://w3c-fedid.github.io/digital-credentials/
• Topic F - Digital Credentials API: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework/blob/main/docs/discussion-topics/f-digital-credential-api.md