- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:45:40 -0400
- To: Dan Bolser <dan@geromics.co.uk>
- Cc: W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
On 6/16/20 11:00 AM, Dan Bolser wrote: > Although as of yet I have done zero work, I was still thinking about > building an editable database of methods at some point. Does this > proposed move rule that out? No, it doesn't rule that out. Case in point is the way ReSpec tracks and cites bibliographic entries. You'll note that every W3C specification has a references section. Here's the one for the DID specification: https://w3c.github.io/did-core/#references That list of references is dynamically generated, when you load the specification (as in, when you looked at the page above, the references started out empty and were built and displayed in realtime). That bibliography database comes from the "specref" database, which is a community run thing: https://github.com/tobie/specref Live link here: https://www.specref.org/ There is nothing stopping anyone from generating something similar for DID Methods. There is also nothing stopping anyone from creating some code that makes it easy to filter/sort the list of DID Methods in real-time in the document. The database has questionable ROI -- why is it better than just a Github PR? The DID Method sorting code, however, has clear ROI. Being able to see the provisional DID Methods or the ones that have a test suite or claim to be in production would be helpful. -- 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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