Re: Experimental did:cel Witness Service (open-source)

I think the draft mentions transmission using gzip ;) Gzip as a
content-encoding is widely supported.
Try to fetch the live did:cel event log from GitHub:

curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, br" -I
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apicatalog/did-cel-log/refs/heads/main/zW1aUdGpZoVs789MPqMuHhgnpyk7yzrfMUs3p7VGk7vqTmi


On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 2:56 AM Patrick St-Louis <
patrick.st-louis@opsecid.ca> wrote:

> I like the idea of a gh action to get started.
>
> Regarding the shared link: reading the specification led me to believe
> that logs must be stored as a compressed gzip archive
> <https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-cel-spec/#compression>. Is this not the
> case?
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM Filip Kolarik <filip26@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > did:cel:zW1aUdGpZoVs789MPqMuHhgnpyk7yzrfMUs3p7VGk7vqTmi?storage=
>> https://storage.googleapis.com/did-cel-log/
>> >
>> > This resolves [3] to the live event log here:
>> https://storage.googleapis.com/did-cel-log/zW1aUdGpZoVs789MPqMuHhgnpyk7yzrfMUs3p7VGk7vqTmi
>>
>> Filip, I think you have the great honor of the first production
>> did:cel identifier and log. :)
>>
>> > Beyond that, I'm also exploring which existing infrastructure could be
>> utilized as DID ecosystem services. For example, GitHub as a
>> CelStorageService [2] is affordable and easily accessible to anyone, and it
>> can also serve as a mirror.
>>
>> Yes, that's excellent! I wonder if you can just run a Github Action to
>> do the witnessing? If you publish that Action, then you enable anyone
>> w/ a Github account to create a did:cel and then port away from Github
>> at a future date.
>>
>> You could also simulate a forking attack by literally forking the
>> Github repo. :)
>>
>> Awesome work, Filip -- really excited by your progress!
>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> --
>> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>>
>>