- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:28:22 -0400
- To: public-credentials@w3.org
On 8/20/20 10:55 AM, Niels Klomp wrote: > We regularly come across potential use cases for URIs/resolution, like > for instance being able to point to other ledgers, transactions and/or data. > > I think it would be very beneficial if there would be something similar > for resolution of data across ledgers. Yep, folks have been working on it for a while: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/blockchain-links/ https://github.com/w3c-ccg/blockchain-links/ https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/114 Also, of note wrt. ledger schemas: https://w3c.github.io/web-ledger/ Web Ledger is used for the Veres One DID Ledger... but outside of that hasn't gotten much uptake. The issue we've found is that everyone wants their ledger and ledger format to win... there haven't been enough ledger ecosystem failures yet to convince companies that they need to standardize at this layer... everyone wants to become the next Oracle or MongoDB... Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems seem to be too invested in their internal ledger formats (and the ecosystem is too large) for them to change now or even consider an interoperability layer between the two systems. We've only had success interoperating at higher layers... Verifiable Credentials, CHAPI, Encrypted Data Vaults, etc... and that may be all we need to get to healthy competitive market. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
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