- From: Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:29:53 +0000
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com>, Kim Hamilton Duffy <kim@identity.foundation>
- CC: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
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Manu, I believe you're getting way ahead of the actual progress of the DID Method working group. None of what you've said below has been ratified by the WG membership. Everything is still a work in progress. All that has been requested asked for (by Kim in the last meeting) is for the members to propose steps for moving forward here (nothing more): https://github.com/decentralized-identity/did-methods/issues In addition, I believe Markus's role as the co-chair is to report on progress. The rest of us (including you and I) are just members. I'm deeply disappointed in seeing this email - to the point where it may be a code-of-conduct violation. @Markus Sabadello<mailto:markus@danubetech.com>: Please add this issue as an agenda topic for this week's WG meeting. I've diarized this here: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/did-methods/issues/9 Best regards, Michael Herman Web 7.0 Foundation / TDW -----Original Message----- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 8:35 AM To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org> Subject: Goals and Requirements for DID Method Standardization? Hey folks, The joint work on DID Method Standardization has begun. We had our first meeting[1][2] two weeks ago, with the next meeting to be held the week after this one. In the coming months, we will be gathering goals and requirements for DID Method standardization to determine which DID Methods we should try to standardize. We'll be looking to the broader decentralized identity communities to suggest what our selection requirements should be for the standardization work. I'm going to try to provide a few examples (we'll probably do a ranked choice poll to rate the importance of each goal/requirement). Please add your own to this thread so we can include them in the community poll (which we'll probably run early Q1 2025). Requirements for DID Method Standardization: * At least one ephemeral DID Method should be identified for standardization. These are useful for short-lived, secure communication. Examples include did:key and did:jwk. * At least one web-based DID Method should be identified for standardization. These are useful for issuers of verifiable credentials and other forms of attestations who know how to manage web domains but are not willing to depend on blockchains or DHTs for their root of trust (i.e., governments). Examples include did:web and did:tdw. * At least one "fully decentralized" DID Method should be identified for standardization. These are useful because they achieve what the other two classes of DID Method above don't achieve -- the vision for why we created DIDs in the first place. Examples include did:dht. * "Global government-approved crypto" is important to ensure governments can adopt the DID Method. Examples include ECDSA. * "Privacy-preserving crypto" is important, even if not government approved, to ensure the privacy of individuals. Examples include BBS. * A digitally signed cryptographic log of changes to the DID Document is a useful feature to standardize on its own (so that multiple DID Methods could utilize the feature). * A multi-factor binding to DNS is an important feature to standardize on its own (so that domain owners can provide an extra level of security on their DID Documents). * A specification with multiple implementers is always preferable to inventing something new unless the community is behind the concept that the "something new" is necessary. I know I'm missing many more requirement ideas, so what are they? What do you feel we should include as requirements as we go through the selection process for which DID Methods (and their features) should be standardized? -- manu [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2024Nov/0026.html [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2024Nov/0035.html -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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