Re: W3C DID Core 1.0 enters Candidate Recommendation stage

Brilliant work! Really glad to see this development which I hope that AF*
Internet community is able to fully exploit.

p.


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:18 AM Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations! I am amazed what this group has accomplished!
>
> On Saturday, March 20, 2021, Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Manu, thank you for the graphic—it will be very helpful in answering the
>> questions I constantly get about "when will DIDs be done?"
>>
>> And thank you to everyone who has contributed to this spec. My conviction
>> is stronger than ever that DIDs will serve as the atomic building block
>> of decentralized digital trust infrastructure.
>>
>> =Drummond
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 7:16 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 has reached the Candidate
>>> Recommendation
>>> stage at W3C. The current specification can be found here:
>>>
>>> https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CR-did-core-20210318/
>>>
>>> This is a major milestone in the W3C global standards process. It marks
>>> the
>>> start of a period of 1-4 months where the official W3C Working Group has
>>> communicated that it is done with all features in the specification.
>>>
>>> The W3C DID WG has also communicated that the specification is stable
>>> enough
>>> to collect implementation experience from the global implementer
>>> community.
>>> Once the WG collects enough implementation experience, it may then make
>>> final
>>> adjustments before publishing the v1.0 global standard, which is
>>> expected at
>>> the end of September 2021.
>>>
>>> I have attached an image with an (unofficial) graphical depiction of the
>>> DID
>>> standards history and expected future timeline.
>>>
>>> Congratulations to everyone that contributed to get us to this point;
>>> this is
>>> a big deal and cause for celebration. :)
>>>
>>> -- 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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