Re: Ideal set of features and DID Methods?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> On "how many methods" - I think at least three (key-based, DNS-based, fully decentralized) is the floor, but realistically a page of actively maintained methods with real deployments is healthy.

Yeah, maybe that's the middle-ground for some definition of "real deployments".

> More practically, did:nostr needs its own method because the method needs to evolve with its ecosystem.

Oh, certainly. I didn't mean to imply that the methods would collapse
into one... just that you can hint to peer that there is a "sameAs"
equivalence there.

> That said, the reverse hint idea is neat as a general mechanism - a did:key document could advertise "this key is also resolvable via Nostr relays" without collapsing the two methods into one.

Yes, that was the intent of the suggestion.

-- manu

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Received on Sunday, 22 February 2026 21:29:37 UTC