Re: Is a semi colon allowed in a specific-idstring?

Hello Mrinal,

Thanks for your comments, the ABNF isn't fully up-to-date.

There's currently some discussion about the exact syntax for service names:
https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/issues/90

Also note that we're still missing did-query in the ABNF:
https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/issues/85

A specific DID method can certainly NOT override the generic ABNF!

Here's the ABNF we're currently using in the Universal Resolver
<http://uniresolver.io/> implementation:
https://github.com/decentralized-identity/did-common-java/blob/master/src/main/resources/did.abnf

Markus

On 11/17/18 2:43 AM, Mrinal Wadhwa wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The current published version of the DID spec (v0.11) includes
> examples like this: did:example:123456789abcdefghi;photos
>
> However the grammar in v0..11 doesn't allow that semi-colon.
> did-reference      = did [ "/" did-path ] [ "#" did-fragment ]
> did                = "did:" method ":" specific-idstring
> method             = 1*methodchar
> methodchar         = %x61-7A / DIGIT
> specific-idstring  = idstring *( ":" idstring )
> idstring           = 1*idchar
> idchar             = ALPHA / DIGIT / "." / "-"
>
> Is this an error or does this mean that specific schemes can override
> the generic scheme?
>
> Our team has open sourced our Golang DID Parser 
> https://github.com/ockam-network/did
>
> Thank you all,
> Mrinal
>
> CTO @ Ockam