Re: DIDs a more generalized and permanent for of UUID?

There are certainly similarities between DIDs and URNs, e.g. the
property of persistence.

One of the main differences has been that DIDs have a controller, and
that they are cryptographically verifiable.

In other words, you can prove that you control a certain DID.

However there is also an ongoing discussions to broaden this aspect of
DIDs and make them even more "URN-like", feel free to comment:
https://github.com/w3c/did-core/issues/233

Markus

On 3/31/20 8:43 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 04:00, Brent Shambaugh
> <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com <mailto:brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Silly question:
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>     Were DIDs meant to be a more generalized and permanent form of UUID?
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>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=LkUkcoyksSI&t=2m18s
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> Similar, but slightly different
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> It's a URI rather than a UUID.  You can turn a UUID into a URI with
> urn:uuid:<ID>
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> The DID has different constraints and properties outlined in the DID
> Core spec
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> They are designed to be permanent in principle but in practice
> cryptographic identifiers may have a finite life span
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>     Thanks,
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>     Brent Shambaugh
>