Yes, I have had this problem before.
and yes, you can just convert all reserved characters from the ABNF.
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#did-syntax (beware of "." and "_", etc)
If you can get away with dropping the "did:method" part, your files will be
more readable.
You can also consider a folder structure approach: /did/method/id.json
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:17 PM Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <
mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:
> Given that a colon is an invalid filename character (at least on most
> PCs), does any one have any thoughts about a convention for mapping a DID
> Identifier into a filename?
>
> For example, using a simple mapping of a colon into a dot (period)?
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