Re: Decentralized identity leaders partner to accelerate DID method standardization

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM Michael Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
> 1) regarding roadmap item "Working Group charter(s) proposed" - any thoughts on where standardization will actually take place?

It depends on where the discussions go once we start meeting
regularly. The invitation to participate will be open, with meetings
recorded and published. Where each specification goes will most likely
be determined by where it most naturally fits (where the experts are
for the DID Methods' base technology).

> 2) I saw a pretty good list of participation from various SDOs - did you reach out to any contacts at IAB/IETF or other areas that potentially provide useful input, especially on security and interoperability aspects? if so, what feedback was received?

We have reached out broadly to communities that are actively
developing DID Methods. We haven't reached out to the IAB/IETF yet. We
expect to do that when we have something more concrete to propose.

> 3) confirming that the statement "to ensure compatibility beneficial across all DID methods" means that with a combination of standardization of methods + resolution that an implementation of one did method meeting the spec will be interoperable with any other or am i overthinking it?

That statement was there to ensure that we can talk about
standardizing design patterns that are useful across multiple DID
Methods. You can think of DID Core, DID Resolution, and Controller
Documents and as the foundation of those design patterns (key
expression formats, service description formats, how you do
resolution, etc.). There were people that were interested in
standardizing pre-rotation mechanisms, DID Document change logs,
multi-factor verification of a DID Document's integrity via binding to
DNSSEC, etc. and they wanted to make sure we could talk about what
those things might look like so that we might standardize them later.
To be clear, talking about standardizing those things is in scope --
not actually standardizing them (unless we get to consensus on those
items, and even then, that feels more like a DID WG v2.0 thing AFTER
we have at least one DID Method that formalizes the feature).

-- manu

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Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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Received on Sunday, 4 August 2024 16:27:47 UTC