Re: Status of WebID proposal

Hi

That's very helpful. Are there any metrics or other indicators of how
widely adopted WebID is? Other than Solid, are there examples of
applications or services utilizing WebID?

J

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:05 AM Jacopo Scazzosi <jacopo@scazzosi.com> wrote:

> Hello Jeremy,
>
> I’ve started working on a revision of the spec that *might*, hopefully,
> gather enough support to make some headway towards the goal of becoming a
> W3C spec. No guarantees.
>
> Some discussion about this can be found in the archives at
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2022Feb . I’ve been
> significantly delayed by work and life stuff but I’m finally getting back
> to it next week.
>
> Best regards,
> Jacopo.
>
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> Jacopo Scazzosi
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> https://treesandrobots.com
>
>
>
> > On 21 Jul 2022, at 22:51, Jeremy Lewi <jeremy@lewi.us> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > What's the current status of the WebID proposal? It seems like the
> proposal has been around for 10+ years but hasn't become a W3C
> recommendation.
> >
> > This thread suggests that progress has stalled in part because the spec
> has gained very little adoption. Can anyone provide more context/opinions
> on why progress/adoption has stalled? Were their technical objections to
> the spec or was the spec solving a problem most folks didn't have?
> >
> > How does the future of WebID relate to DID's which I believe recently
> became a W3C recommendation (blog)? Would WebID be compatible or superseded
> by DID web?
> >
> > Thanks
> > J
>
>