- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 14:38:06 -0400
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote: > However, I believe that both Multikey and Multihash suffer from a significant architectural flaw: they bind type to encoding, violating proper layering principles. I don't think this is true? Multikey is a binary format. So is Multihash. Both consist of a binary header that states how to interpret the remaining bytes. They are completely independent of the base-encoding format. The Data Integrity specs do tend to make a choice when base-encoding, because we had folks threatening to formally object if we didn't lock down the base-encoding format... but to say that Multikey and Multihash bind key/hash type to encoding is not correct. Both are binary formats... base-encoding layers on top of them. Can you see what I'm missing, Christopher? I'm definitely missing something, or your understanding of Multikey/Mulithash isn't correct. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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