Re: Removing owner from key info in DID Documents

On 16 October 2017 at 15:55, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Ryan, Kim, Drummond, ChrisW, and anyone else that may be interested,
>
> At some point, a few folks said that they didn't understand why we were
> including key owners in the key descriptions in the
> "authenticationCredential" field in DID Documents.
>
> I forgot that we had shot a video over two years ago to explain why
> (explanation at 8 minutes in):
>
> https://youtu.be/QdUZaYeQblY
>
> I'm not asserting that it applies, but merely pointing to some required
> background knowledge in order for us to have that conversation.
>

Do you have a context.

It seems quite logical that a key has an owner.

Why would that want to be removed?

Unless you wish to overload the key and the owner together as an indirect
identifier.  Which would seem to be to be a design decision that could lead
to incompatibility with others that dont make that same choice.


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