Re: Request to Migrate DID Method registry management to W3C DID WG

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 15:57, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 6/16/20 9:38 AM, Orie Steele wrote:
> > Anyone can open a PR against the DID Spec Registry.
>
> ... and to be crystal clear about what "anyone" means... It doesn't mean
> "anyone in the Working Group" or "anyone in the Community Group", it
> means any person on the planet with the ability to open a Github pull
> request.
>
> The DID Specification Registries document is meant for developers to
> signal to other developers about the sorts of global extensions they've
> made to the DID ecosystem. It's meant to be a level playing field, which
> means that you DO NOT have to be in a W3C/IETF/etc Working Group to
> register extensions and you DO NOT have to be in the W3C CCG to register
> extensions.
>
> You just need to be a person that writes a specification and opens a PR
> on the registry.
>

This is brilliant, thanks!  Very decentralized! :))


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