Re: what do DIDs identify? from Tom Jones on 2019-01-17 (public-credentials@w3.org from January 2019)

From: Tom Jones <thomasclinganjones@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:59:30 -1000
To: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com>
Cc: "Michael Herman (Parallelspace)" <mwherman@parallelspace.net>, Carlos Bruguera <cbruguera@gmail.com>, Tim Bouma <trbouma@gmail.com>, "W3C Credentials CG (Public List)" <public-credentials@w3.org>, "daniel.hardman@evernym.com" <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
Message-ID: <CAK2Cwb7qW5VabxcdiPoN8fzX4Mydb6HT9wizhQ9iL5NCF=xs1Q@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

thx ..Tom (mobile)

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:44 AM Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:50 AM Michael Herman (Parallelspace) <
> mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:
>
>> I’m advocating applying it to specifically to Non-Fungible Entities (see
>> principle (P9) in the INDY ARM:
>> https://hyperonomy.com/2019/01/13/hyperledger-indy-sovrin-comprehensive-architecture-reference-model-arm/
>> ).
>>
>
> I like the concept of “non-fungible entities”, in particular for cars with
> security tech (may VIN as DID) & chipped pets. But for entities that can’t
> prove possession of keys I’m very reluctant to agree that they should have
> DIDs, maybe a UUID that you can point to for assertions but that they can’t.
>
> — Christopher Allen
>
>
> — Christopher Allen
>

Received on Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:00:14 UTC