Collaboration with Social Web Incubator CG (re: alsoKnownAs)

Hi all,

The DID WG had an opportunity to collaborate recently with the Social
Web Incubator Community Group, and I'm happy to report that our joint
mission has been a success.

This is with respect to the `alsoKnownAs` property, something which has
been in use by various ActivityPub implementations for some time, but
was an extension rather than a core part of their stack of RECs. Members
of the DID WG and implementers from the ActivityPub community worked
together to refine the definition of `alsoKnownAs` that appears in the
DID Core spec to make sure it is suitable for both communities, and at
the weekend the Social Web Incubator CG passed a formal resolution to
add `alsoKnownAs` into the ActivityStreams 2.0 namespace (and
corresponding JSON-LD context) with a link out to the human-readable
definition in DID Core [1].

It's always nice when groups with similar goals and interests can work
together to share a vocabulary and reduce redundancy in the space.

Thanks everyone!

Amy

[1] https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams

Received on Monday, 9 November 2020 16:41:56 UTC