Re: Materials from 2019-04-11 combined DID Spec and DID Resolution Spec meeting

On 2019-04-12 2:05 pm, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> Slides, recording and notes for the 2019-04-11 combined DID Spec and DID
> Resolution Spec meeting is here:
> https://github.com/w3c-ccg/meetings/tree/gh-pages/2019-04-11-did-spec-and-resolution
> 

In these notes there's a fairly long discussion of the possibility of 
"did:facebook" etc, and what those silo's methods might mean. Marcus 
said at one point:

> [2019-04-11T20:18:13.165Z] <dlongley> markus_sabadello: The only argument I heard that I understand a little bit from Joe Andrieu is that ... we could argue that the DID URL scheme as a whole would still be decentralized because you can argue to use which method you want. This would be a big change from how we use DIDs so far, but I could understand a little bit. If you don't want to use a facebook DID you can use Sovrin or Veres One. So the whole space [would be] decentralized though individual methods might not be.

As far as I can understand from reading these meeting notes, Markus 
was pointing out what seems to be a major discrepancy between the 
original goals (and still current via the DID .012 spec) and the 
possibility that methods could be written for DID for did:facebook, 
etc. that don't follow these goals.

I'd like some clarification about this because it seems to change a 
lot that I had assumed was happening in this group.

Specifically, does this mean that, say, if Facebook, Google, 
Microsoft, Apple, (etc.) each write their own DID method, and write 
them so that they're as silo'd as possible (which they may well do), 
then it's likely that:

a) There is no data portability for all the people using those silo'd 
DIDs;
b) There may be limited (or no) pseudonymity or privacy for the people 
using those DIDs; and perhaps other limits.

Is this accurate?


Steven

Received on Saturday, 13 April 2019 22:43:37 UTC