- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:53:38 -0500
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
- Cc: Samuel Smith <sam@prosapien.com>
On 01/04/2018 12:14 PM, Mike Lodder wrote: > I believe DID documents are about key management I think that may be one of the sticking points here. There is a subset of arguments that assume that a DID Document is almost exclusively about key management, which results in the sorts of arguments we're seeing. Yes, DID documents can be used to do key management, AND there are others in this group that want those documents to support more than JUST key management. For example: * Service Discovery * Expression of public Verifiable Credentials * Expression of alternative proof mechanisms Cryptography isn't just solely about keys... in fact, it's mostly about proofs and that's what some of us are driving at here. Thinking about this document in a key-based approach is problematic because it can paint us into a corner wrt. these documents being about how you can do proofs (with keys just being one mechanism that could be utilized). -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The State of W3C Web Payments in 2017 http://manu.sporny.org/2017/w3c-web-payments/
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