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

Thanks Markus and Melvin. I find issue 233 to be a very illustrious thread.
Daniel Hardman summarized DID benefits well. This topic also segue ways
into the recent call.

I believe I was coming at this from a database perspective. In the past
couple of months I have asked about satellites, IoT, and.. Thanks for the
replies from Sam Matthews Chase, Christopher Allen, et al. I’ll be around.
Still formalizing thoughts.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com> wrote:

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

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