Re: [PROPOSAL]: Adopt DID-KR Key Recovery Extension as a CCG Work Item

Hi Amir,

I too am supportive of this initiative, documenting different key recovery
mechanisms and how they apply to DIDs is valuable work.

As Manu mentioned the requirements for starting a CCG work item are fairly
lightweight.
As long as no one objects to the work, you just require one other editor
from a different organisation.
Digital Bazaar have stated they will join you in this effort which is great.

So if you just open a new CCG Work Item issue here:
https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/

Then we can discuss this on our next CCG call on Tuesday and hopefully
adopt the work item.

Thanks,
Will

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:51 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 1:36 AM Christopher Allen
> <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:
> > Happy to share more detail on any of these if helpful.
>
> Yes, +1 they're all helpful and are things the DID-KR spec needs to
> analyze and integrate (or have a very good reason why it decided to
> not use one of the mechanisms).
>
> One of the biggest challenges here might be the diversity of key
> recovery strategies and attempting to get down to one per recovery
> category... and attempting to merge as many recovery categories as
> possible to ease implementation burden.
>
> Amir, all of the things Christopher listed should be integrated into
> the spec in some way (at a minimum, in a section that covers
> "Alternatives Considered", though I expect direct integration with the
> spec for some of them is likely given how much work Blockchain Commons
> has put into these features and that they're already integrated with a
> number of blockchain wallets.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>
>