Re: DID identifiers have a dependency on w3id.org

On 3/15/19 8:29 PM, elf-pavlik@hackers4peace.net wrote:
> Seeing announcement of new Chromium 73 features which includes Signed
> HTTP exchanges reminded me of this thread. I don't know if this could
> play some role in distributing JSON-LD context mandated by the spec

There may be something there, but note that taking the signed web
package based approach would be far more complicated than just including
a Hashlink for the JSON-LD Context OR shipping the contexts that your
application needs with your application.

To restate it in another way - going out to the network always opens you
up to a ton of extra attacks, and doing so is not necessary to solve
this problem.

For those that want to open themselves up to those attacks (and there
may be good reasons to do so, like the ecosystem changes too quickly to
snapshot the contexts), digitally signing the resources are one possible
way forward.

In all cases, I believe that the JSON-LD Context loading mechanism would
be responsible for enforcing the particular set of checks (and thus,
experimentation can happen w/o the need for a specification at first).

-- manu

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Received on Saturday, 16 March 2019 14:43:40 UTC