- From: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 11:14:41 -0700
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
On 2018-07-07 7:19 PM, Kim Hamilton Duffy wrote: > 8. uPort DID Proposal (35 minutes) > - > https://medium.com/uport/a-complete-list-of-uports-protocols-libraries-and-solutions-63e9b99b9fd6 > - Topics > - Description of changes > - Any difficulties with DID method spec implementation? > - uPort DID method spec status I note that at that link, uPort uses "DID" to mean "Decentralized Identity" -- rather than "Decentralized Identifier", which the Credentials Community Group uses (https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/) And at the ethr-did library spec (https://github.com/uport-project/ethr-did), which uPort is based on, I find both used, as if they're interchangeable. For example, in the sentence: "This library is intended to use Ethereum addresses as fully self managed Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and lets you easily create and manage keys for these identities." It looks like the unrolling of 'DID' may be doomed to contain people who like to use DID meaning 'identifier', people who like to use it to mean 'identity', and people who don't seem to care and use them interchangeably. Is that a fair assessment of the current situation? Steven > - Verifiable Claims with JWT > > > — W3C-CCG Co-Chairs: Christopher Allen, Kim Hamilton Duffy & Joe Andrieu > -- > Kim Hamilton Duffy > CTO & Principal Architect Learning Machine > Co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group > 400 Main Street Building E19-732, Cambridge, MA 02139 > > kim@learningmachine.com <mailto:kim@learningmachine.com> | > kimhd@mit.edu <mailto:kimhd@mit.edu> > 425-652-0150 | LearningMachine.com >
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