Creator Assertions Working Group

The Creator Assertions Working Group builds upon the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) by defining additional assertions that allow content creators to express individual and organizational intent about their content.

(See C2PA Technical Specification: Technical Overview for an explanation of the C2PA data model including assertions.)

Technical specifications

These assertions are specified by the following documents:

Contributing

As of March 2025, CAWG is a working group within the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). CAWG operates under a joint participation agreement, which means that contributions to the CAWG specifications and attendance at CAWG meetings are open to:

  • DIF members (join here)

  • Trust Over IP Foundation members

  • Signatories of CAWG’s previous operating agreement (Community Specification License) as of 1 February 2025

Participants from included organizations may join CAWG without additional fees, provided they sign DIF’s intellectual property rights agreement.

Meeting schedule

The Creator Assertions Working Group holds video meetings every other Monday at two times:

North America / Europe:

  • 0800 US Pacific

  • 1100 US Eastern

  • 1500 UTC

  • 1600 Central Europe

APAC:

  • 1800 US Pacific

  • 0100 (Tuesday) UTC

  • 0630 India

  • 1200 Sydney

The same agenda is prepared for both meetings and the meetings are scheduled for 90 minutes each.

Upcoming schedule changes

The following meetings will deviate from the usual Monday schedule:

30 June 2025 instance cancelled.

Meeting notes

Meeting notes and agendas for upcoming meetings are published here.