Re: [External] Pop Quiz: Where do DIDs belong from an Enterprise Architecture perspective?

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 2:29 AM Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <
mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:

> An interesting related question for a UX expert is: If DIDs are low-level
> technology artifacts, what are the best/most appropriate UX metaphors to
> surface in real apps?
>
> Petnames.  A petname is a human meaningful string that is associated
one-to-one with an opaque identifier.

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Alan Karp


On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 2:29 AM Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <
mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:

> An interesting related question for a UX expert is: If DIDs are low-level
> technology artifacts, what are the best/most appropriate UX metaphors to
> surface in real apps?
>
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> *From:* Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 29, 2024 8:13:29 AM
> *To:* Kishore Rajasekharuni <kishore.rajasekharuni@jukshio.com>
> *Cc:* public-credentials (public-credentials@w3.org) <
> public-credentials@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [External] Pop Quiz: Where do DIDs belong from an
> Enterprise Architecture perspective?
>
> Thank you for your analysis Kishore.When I say "DIDs", I'm being very
> literal:
> A DID = decentralized identifier = "did:wxyz:1234" character string.
>
> The answer to the question gets into the subtleties of decentralized
> identifiers (e.g. did:wxyz:1234). They are not intended to be
> human-friendly or comprehensible (like a checksum or a GUID); hence in my
> mind, they are low-level technical/infrastructure concepts/elements - at
> the very most, the lowest levels of your application architecture
> (admitting this is actually going too far IMO).
>
> It would be interesting to revisit how a platform like .NET abstracts an
> identifier up the chain into higher level application objects like an
> Identity or Principal (.NET terminology).
>
> Michael Herman
> CEO and First Principles Thinker
> Web 7.0 Foundation / Trusted Digital Web (TDW)
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> *From:* Kishore Rajasekharuni <kishore.rajasekharuni@jukshio.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, December 27, 2024 8:34:31 AM
> *To:* Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
> *Cc:* public-credentials (public-credentials@w3.org) <
> public-credentials@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [External] Pop Quiz: Where do DIDs belong from an
> Enterprise Architecture perspective?
>
> My understanding - DiD can be part of  Party Management in the Business
> architecture layer.  At the application architecture layer, it can be the
> Digital Identity module exposing APIs for Onboarding, Identity Proofing and
> Fraud Detection. The underlying Digital Identity Apps / Portals can be part
> of the Technology / Infrastructure architecture.
>
> regards
> Kishore
>
> On 27 Dec 2024, at 12:07 PM, Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <
> mwherman@parallelspace.net> wrote:
>
> Are DIDs part of the:
> - Business architecture/layer/domain
> - Application architecture/layer/domain
> - Technology/Infrastructure architecture/layer/domain?
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