Re: Idea for a Proposal: Notation for resolving a DID identifier directly to the underlying object or collection of objects associated with the DID identifier

Charles, check out this thread re: separation of addressing schemes from the protocol from the content ...from a specifications perspective: https://twitter.com/mwherman2000/status/1483110099430391808?t=zzx2jSNrsdPA3kvhJpoQ9Q&s=19

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From: Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2021 7:51:54 AM
To: Charles E. Lehner <charles.lehner@spruceid.com>; public-credentials@w3.org <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Idea for a Proposal: Notation for resolving a DID identifier directly to the underlying object or collection of objects associated with the DID identifier

RE: then when a resolver calls the associated VDR using that DID URL, the VDR returns the identified digital resource, not the DID document.

Charles, I'm surprised someone hasn't jumped in n this sooner: what type of resolver are you referring to? ...by that I mean if the resolver is a DID Resolution specification compliant resolver, the resolver can only return DID Document compliant resources (or portions of a DID Document compliant resource). ... if the above is true, supporting a TOIP query string parameter that can return arbitrary JSON structures will break interoperability of the DID ecosystem.

Your thoughts? ...my knowledge of the DID Resolution spec may be out of date.

Michael

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From: Charles E. Lehner <charles.lehner@spruceid.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021, 9:59 p.m.
To: public-credentials@w3.org
Subject: Re: Idea for a Proposal: Notation for resolving a DID identifier directly to the underlying object or collection of objects associated with the DID identifier

Hi Michael,

On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:21:18 +0000
"Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web)" <mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:

> What is a suitable notation to short circuit all of the above steps
> to simply return the underlying object or collection of objects
> associated with a particular DID identifier in a more direct way?

There is a "resource" DID URL parameter specified by ToIP - could that work?

  https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/#resource
  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/DID+URL+Resource+Parameter+Specification

> If a DID method specification supports this parameter, and if a DID URL using that method includes the parameter with a valid value (either true or a valid media type name), then when a resolver calls the associated VDR using that DID URL, the VDR returns the identified digital resource, not the DID document.

Regards,
Charles E. Lehner