Re: Removing owner from key info in DID Documents

On 10/16/2017 10:58 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Why would that want to be removed?

There were a few folks from the Bitcoin BTCR DID camp that asserted that
you can assume who the key owner is if the key is listed in the DID
Document, which I believe is true (without putting much thought into it).

The downside, of course, is that not listing the key owner is
incompatible with all the Linked Data Signature libraries. There are
systems, such as HTTP URL-based ones, where you MUST provide the owner
(to create the bi-directional link between the site that the key is
published on and the site that hosts the triples for the owner of the
key). A compromise would be to inject the owner before sending the key
into the LDS libs, or to just be okay with a common format across all
DID Documents.

I suggested that the BTCR folks don't break from this pattern as it'll
make BTCR-specific implementations more difficult with the only upside
being the saving of a few tens of bytes of data.

-- manu

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