Hi Leonard,
I think that the work happening at Chain Agnostic (
https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs) might be a possible answer to your
question of
> how do you reference a decentralized object (e.g. something on a DLT)?
> There is no standardize mechanism for referencing – ala a URL.
Best,
John Henderson
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 9:39 PM Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
wrote:
> It’s not unlike a problem that we are trying to reconcile in C2PA – how do
> you reference a decentralized object (e.g. something on a DLT)? There is
> no standardize mechanism for referencing – ala a URL. At least for IPFS,
> they standardized a model for “proxying” so that you can use an `ipfs://`
> URL.
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> DIDs, and the DID Method registry, are something for identities – but that
> doesn’t help for all the myriad of other things that can live on a DLT.
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> Hope this conversation can include that as well.
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>
> Leonard
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> *From: *Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
> *Date: *Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:22 PM
> *To: *public-credentials (public-credentials@w3.org) <
> public-credentials@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Indexing/searching a corpus of (decentralized) self-sovereign
> data
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> *EXTERNAL: Use caution when clicking on links or opening attachments.*
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> As I started to think about this, it turns out that it is not a
> straightforward problem (and hence, neither is the solution).
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> Is anyone aware of any previous discussions on this topic, articles,
> papers, etc. that analyze this problem and, perhaps, characterize what a
> solution might look like?
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> Thank you,
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> Michael
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> Best regards,
>
> Michael Herman
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