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:

CAWG is joining DIF!

As of March 2025, CAWG is becoming a working group of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Please see their blog article welcoming us. The blog article contains a short sign-up form that will help you join and gain access to CAWG meetings.

Contributing

Governance

Each of the projects of the Creator Assertion Working Group are licensed and governed under the Community Specification License 1.0. In order to contribute to the specifications or the working group meetings, you will first need to sign the contributor license agreement. The process for this is separate for each CAWG project and described in the README document for each repository.

Each project contains a scope document (see scope.md at the root of each repository) which describes the intended purpose of the project.

Code of conduct

Each of the projects of the Creator Assertions Working Group are covered by a code of conduct adapted from the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. This code of conduct describes standards for acceptable and unacceptable behavior and policies for enforcing those standards. As an example, see the Code of Conduct in the Identity Assertion project. All projects follow this same code of conduct.

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.

To request an invitation, please view the blog article welcoming CAWG into DIF. The article contains a short sign-up form that will help you join and gain access to CAWG meetings and the mailing list.

Upcoming schedule changes

Both NA/EU and APAC instances for 7 April 2025 have been canceled since many members will be traveling to Internet Identity Workshop.

Meeting notes

Meeting notes and agendas for upcoming meetings are published here.