Re: Thoughts about signatures, JOSE, and NIST curves (was: [PROPOSED WORK ITEM] ECDSA Secp384r1 Cryptosuite v2019)

Maybe I was incorrect in thinking that use of JsonWebKey2020 was restricted
to application/did+json .

Here is an example that uses the '@context' which I believe is specific to
application/did+ld+json .
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#example-various-verification-method-types

The @context property is there:
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#json-ld

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:53 PM Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>
wrote:

> While we are on the topic:
> I am used to using JsonWebKey2020 when the contentType is
> application/did+json . However, is it okay to also use  JsonWebKey2020 when
> the contentType is application/did+ld+json ? At some point in time I
> convinced myself that JsonWebKey2020 was only meant to be used with JSON,
> and when you moved to JSON-LD it became make up your own name with
> description and date.
> Looking back, this may not be accurate.
>
> tl;dr: I am trying to resolve this question that came up yesterday:
> https://github.com/ceramicnetwork/js-ceramic/pull/1884#issuecomment-1021524440
>
>
> -Brent Shambaugh
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:45 PM Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
>
>> big +1 to this:
>>>
>>> I would strongly recommend building on one or the other, or both, and
>>> not attempting to invent anything new that is not directly compatible with
>>> them.
>>
>>
>> In general IETF is the place to look for the actual formats for Keys,
>> Signatures, etc
>> Those then can get leveraged and wrapped with other niceties as
>> appropriate elsewhere (e.g. a W3C spec/standard that uses the IETF
>> definition of ED25519 for underlying key representation etc)
>>
>> Mike Prorock
>> CTO, Founder
>> https://mesur.io/
>>
>