Re: [PROPOSED WORK ITEM] CEL DID Method (did:cel)

On 2026-01-12 10:46 am, Manh Thanh Le wrote:
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> Summary: We are not replacing did:cel. We are building the armored transport that ensures it survives when infrastructure fails.
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Hi Manh,

Thank you, that helps quite a bit.

However, I'm still unclear about the use of Glogos in terms of the digital content files themselves (say the Journalist's MP4 video, or the author's or researcher's PDF text), rather than the Credentials that may be associated with their producers.

And, to try to clarify this, I'd like to revisit the metaphor you used in another post, in which you termed did:cel as the 'Letter' and the Glogos wrapper as the 'Envelope'.

I'd like to suggest that in these use cases it might be more useful to view the 'content' — the MP4 video by the journalist or the PDF of the author's book or researcher's paper — as being the 'Letter', since that is the core object that is being transmitted from a creator to a viewer or from a buyer to a seller.

With that usage, how would you describe the did:cel and the Glogos layers, relative to that 'Letter' being the content? What is their relative function, and how are they arranged? Are they two layers of nested 'Envelopes' around the 'letter'? Or are the did:cel and Golgos DAG coordinating to make a single Envelope? (Or something else?)

Or does the Envelope-Letter metaphor break down here, and if so is there some better metaphor for how the three parts — content, did:cel, Golgos — are interacting?

Steven Rowat


> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net> wrote:
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>     On 2026-01-12 3:44 am, Manh Thanh Le wrote:
>>     +1 for did:cel.
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>>     If useful down the road, Glogos could serve as an optional anchoring layer — DAG-based temporal proof without periodic heartbeats.
>>     Happy to collaborate if there's interest.
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>     Perhaps this will need its own thread, but could you indicated in non-technical language what Glogos would provide, if anything, that other DID methods and protocols don't?
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>     Specifically, my interest is in the publishing of digital files, and all that can entail: attribution, peer review, pseudonymity, payment, privacy, etc.
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>     For example, use cases such as the following, what would Glogos do, or do better, that other DID methods can't yet?
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>     1. A journalist reporting news from a war zone where they are in personal danger.
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>     2. An abuse survivor publishing a book about their family experiences pseudonymously.
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>     3. A scientific researcher who is not affiliated with an institution submitting a report of an experiment to a peer-review journal (open or commercial).
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>     Steven Rowat
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