Add vc-forgery-defense

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URL

https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/

Rationale

• See repository: w3c/vc-forgery-defense
• Would-be shortname: vc-forgery-defense-1.0

Additional properties

{}

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Changes to index.json

This update would trigger the following changes in index.json:

Add spec (1)

{
  "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/",
  "seriesComposition": "full",
  "shortname": "vc-forgery-defense-1.0",
  "series": {
    "shortname": "vc-forgery-defense",
    "currentSpecification": "vc-forgery-defense-1.0",
    "title": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense",
    "shortTitle": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense",
    "releaseUrl": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense/",
    "nightlyUrl": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense/"
  },
  "seriesVersion": "1.0",
  "organization": "W3C",
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "Verifiable Credentials Working Group",
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/vc/"
    }
  ],
  "release": {
    "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/",
    "status": "First Public Working Draft",
    "filename": "Overview.html"
  },
  "nightly": {
    "url": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense/",
    "status": "Editor's Draft",
    "alternateUrls": [],
    "repository": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense",
    "sourcePath": "index.html"
  },
  "title": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0",
  "source": "w3c",
  "shortTitle": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0",
  "categories": [],
  "standing": "good"
}

Tests

With these changes, the following tests would fail:

The `index.json` list contains filenames for all nightly URLs (except RFCs)

Expected:

[]

Actual:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/",
    "seriesComposition": "full",
    "shortname": "vc-forgery-defense-1.0",
    "series": {
      "shortname": "vc-forgery-defense",
      "currentSpecification": "vc-forgery-defense-1.0",
      "title": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense",
      "shortTitle": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense",
      "releaseUrl": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense/",
      "nightlyUrl": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense/"
    },
    "seriesVersion": "1.0",
    "organization": "W3C",
    "groups": [
      {
        "name": "Verifiable Credentials Working Group",
        "url": "https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/vc/"
      }
    ],
    "release": {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/",
      "status": "First Public Working Draft",
      "filename": "Overview.html"
    },
    "nightly": {
      "url": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense/",
      "status": "Editor's Draft",
      "alternateUrls": [],
      "repository": "https://github.com/w3c/vc-forgery-defense",
      "sourcePath": "index.html"
    },
    "title": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0",
    "source": "w3c",
    "shortTitle": "Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0",
    "categories": [],
    "standing": "good"
  }
]

Crawl results for Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0

Crawl summary:

• Title: Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0
• Authoring tool: respec
• Date: 30 June 2026
• Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-forgery-defense-1.0/
• Spec defines:
  • Algorithms: 4 found
  • Headings: 36 found
  • IDs: 184 found
  • Links: 15 rawlinks, 1 autolinks
  • References: 7 normative, 1 informative
  • Terms: 16 explicitly exported, 4 private
• No CDDL, CSS, Events, Web IDL definitions found

16 explicitly exported terms

• witness, type dfn (xref search)
• witness list, type dfn (xref search)
• witness list credential, type dfn (xref search)
• witness list entry, type dfn (xref search)
• witness seed, type dfn (xref search)
• witness index, type dfn (xref search)
• witness length, type dfn (xref search)
• witness count, type dfn (xref search)
• encoded witnesses, type dfn (xref search)
• implicit mode, type dfn (xref search)
• explicit mode, type dfn (xref search)
• standalone mode, type dfn (xref search)
• witnessSeed, type dfn (xref search)
• witnessLength, type dfn (xref search)
• witnessCount, type dfn (xref search)
• encodedWitnesses, type dfn (xref search)

[tidoust]

Transition to FPWD was requested, with an open question as to whether the spec fits in scope of the group. Let's see how that unfolds before we add the spec to the list.

[tidoust]

Spec was published as First Public Working Draft. I updated the canonical URL.

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