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

ne 29. 12. 2024 v 19:15 odesílatel Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com> napsal:

> 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.
>

FWIW we built petnames into the core protocol of nostr.  They have not
really been used so far, after millions of users with different workflows.
There are still a few devs that advocate for them, but they have yet to
show what the utility is.  I'd be happy if someone could articulate a use
case that might catch on.


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> Alan Karp
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> 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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