At one point in my original DID architecture method names themselves were going to be a DID, however, this meant that a top level DHT needed to be defined & supported, even if a very simple. As this was too heavyweight we went with the current adhoc proposal as we felt it was not as likely to be abused. If it starts to be a problem, we will establish minimum criteria to accept a method name (right now method specs has to be accepted by the W3C Credentials CG which is an open community process). Setting up a top level registry, even if decentralized, would be far more difficult at this stage, so in the spirit of avoiding “the perfect is the enemy of the good” we are not doing it now. — Christopher Allen [via iPhone]
Received on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:28:50 UTC