This specification describes a data model with which one or more recognized entities, such as one or more persons and/or organizations, can be described as known to perform specific actions, such as issuing or verifying a verifiable credential. The data model enables the publication or direct sharing of such information, providing a cryptographically-verifiable and privacy-preserving mechanism through which a holder can demonstrate that an entity whose credential they are using is recognized within a particular ecosystem. The specification is designed to interoperate with existing "trust infrastructures", such as X.509 certificate authority lists and ETSI Trust Service Lists, while enabling new decentralized ecosystems to be built using verifiable credentials.
You can view the live version of this specification here:
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/vc-recognition/
While we prefer the creation of issues and Pull Requests in the GitHub repository, discussions also occur on the public-credentials mailing list.