Re: DID Key Management Harmonization Proposal #1

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 01/09/2018 07:30 PM, =Drummond Reed wrote:
> > A DID ledger is a simple generic way to refer to "a distributed
> > system that supports a DID method". For example, for the BTCR
> > method, Bitcoin is the DID ledger. For the uPort DID method, Ethereum
> > is the DID ledger. For the Sovrin DID method, Sovrin is the DID
> > ledger.
>
> ... or that... :) - I note that we don't define "DID ledger" in our
> specs, IIRC. Don't know if it adds enough for us to formally define it
> (again, the goal being to keep the amount of terminology one has to
> learn to understand what we're doing down to a minimum).


I agree. At the Boston RWOT meeting, the generic term we had decided to use
was simply "target system", i.e., a DID is registered/resolved using a DID
method that operates against a specified target system. That target system
could be anything from a blockchain or distributed ledger to a
decentralized file system like IPFS.