Re: DID methods registry database?

To keep momentum, I've put some 'rough notes' here:
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/3/pad/edit/7bb4c36d5a9729a66d6e66fa56e76d9b/

Please feel free to add comments / suggestions / feedback there.


Cheers,


On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 16:48, Dan Bolser <dan@geromics.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks both,
>
> Yes, I don't want to duplicate work!
>
> I'll have to read the above in a bit more detail, after which I can build
> a prototype for feedback pretty easily.
>
> Unfortunately, 'seqwiki' (the paper I linked) has been down for a while.
> I'm planning to resurrect it, but user accounts are a lingering issue...
> However, you can look at how it (nearly) works here:
> http://116.203.158.69/wiki/Software
>
> e.g.
> http://116.203.158.69/wiki/Special:BrowseData
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 15:37, Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I was thinking of doing the same thing! (Except was still at the phase of
>> pondering which tool stack to use.) MediaWiki is a great idea!
>> As Manu mentions, there IS already the DID Methods Registry. However, it
>> is a static markdown table, and it would be very interesting and useful to
>> actually use a database as a backend. (And to expand the fields used for
>> tracking and classifying the methods.)
>>
>> Here are the fields I would like to see, to start with:
>>
>> (Fields from the DID Registry)
>> * Method name
>> * Link to method spec
>> * Authors
>> * (Spec) Status (provisional/deprecated etc)
>> * Persistence mechanism (DLT or Network column)
>>
>> Other fields:
>> * Broad persistence category. (Ledger [public permissionless, public
>> permissioned, private, etc] vs DHT vs Local/Peer vs Other).
>> * Number of implementations
>> * DID Core features supported (proof purposes, service endpoints, etc)
>> * Other / custom features supported
>> * Key algorithms supported (ed25519, rsa, etc)
>> * Cost of DID Document creation/registering
>> * Cost of DID Document update (key rotation etc)
>>
>> In addition, I think it would be interesting to go through the
>> (forthcoming) DID Method Rubrics
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rYdWiwawWmLOWtHRvT0GzYcdewW_OS9M2mAkENLFdtY/edit>
>> document, to see which fields from there it would make sense to add to the
>> db.
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:04 AM Dan Bolser <dan@geromics.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been thinking of building a registries database using Semantic
>>> MediaWiki. It's kind of my favorite hammer / toy [1].
>>>
>>> What fields would people expect to see for a did-method?
>>>
>>> Many thanks, Dan
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245082/
>>>
>>