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 has become a working group within the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Please see their blog article welcoming us.

To participate in CAWG or attend our meetings, you will need to join DIF at least at the contributor level.

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.

Meeting notes

Meeting notes and agendas for upcoming meetings are published here.