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

Alan, who creates the petnames? ...the user or the "system/app"?

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Subject: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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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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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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<mailto: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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