- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:53:15 -0500
- To: Manh Thanh Le <vnlemanhthanh@gmail.com>
- Cc: Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com>, public-credentials@w3.org
On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM Manh Thanh Le <vnlemanhthanh@gmail.com> wrote: > Following Markus's question about alignment between verifiable history formats (webvh, webs/KERI, CEL) - I'd like to suggest that Glogos might serve as a complementary substrate layer for did:cel, rather than another competing format. Interesting... I took a quick look and see many similarities (which is a good thing). One thing in particular jumped out at me: > 3. Universal Root: GLR provides a mathematical root that all CELs could trace to, addressing the "where does the chain start?" problem. A modification of this feature could also address the forking issue that the heartbeat feature is designed to prevent, where the "heartbeat" is effectively kept in once place and addresses all DIDs via a Merkle tree of some kind... though, that would require additional infrastructure that did:cel is attempting to get rid of. I am also, almost certainly misunderstanding how the GLR is managed, updated, and is worked into the local log... it seems like a static value per domain right now? What I'm hoping for is some sort of "big timestamp log file" that everyone downloads/mirrors, and then you have the CEL anchor to that "central" file... though, at that point we're effectively back to a blockchain and we haven't reduced the size of the log files by much (because you still need a reference to the GLR "chain"). :) -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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