Re: DNS -> DIDs -- why not VC embedded in HTML?

On 08/11/2018 02:17 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> - I believe DNS names should only ever be used for initial discovery
> of a public DID

Why couldn't you just serve something from the root page of the website.
Embed a Verifiable Credential stating that "Domain example.com is run by
did:example:1234." ... hundreds of millions of sites are doing this with
schema.org today.

Just copy-paste that into the HTML... Google and Microsoft search
crawlers would just immediately pick up those VCs.

That's not to say that you shouldn't pursue the DNS approach, Markus...
just that it may be easier for web developers to just dump some JSON-LD
in their HTML page than it would be to get their organization to update
their DNS records.

-- manu

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Received on Saturday, 11 August 2018 21:04:39 UTC