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# WebOfTrust/vLEI, the open vLEI specifications

The WebOfTrust repository of public open specifications for GLEIF's vLEI: JSON schemas for the six vLEI credential types (QVI, LE, OOR AUTH, ECR AUTH, OOR, ECR) as ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) schemas, sample credentials, test vectors, and a schema generator and server. Apache-2.0 licensed; still receiving commits.

Labels: reading level Implementer; evidence code (a repository or its documentation; what the code does can be checked).
Source: https://github.com/WebOfTrust/vLEI (license Apache-2.0).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.