DID WG Special Topic call for today

It would help give the Editors some direction with current PRs if the WG could
discuss the following statements on the special topic call today:

Statements we need clarity on wrt. the ADM:

1. The ADM MUST ONLY be used to represent a DID Document.

2. The ADM can be used to represent any data structure in
   the DID Core specification, e.g., a resolution metadata
   structure, or a verification method.

The text in the specification today can be found here (and assumes 2):

https://w3c.github.io/did-core/#data-model

The following PR is blocked from being merged due to the disagreement the
group was introduced to here:

https://github.com/w3c/did-core/pull/644/files#diff-0eb547304658805aad788d320f10bf1f292797b5e6d745a3bf617584da017051R2369

Statements we need clarity on wrt. testability of the Resolution section:

1. If possible, and in order to increase interoperability,
   we should ensure that every normative MUST statement is
   machine-testable in the DID Resolution section.

2. If it is not clear how some normative MUST statements
   should be tested, the test suite authors will make a
   judgement call, and if implementers disagree, they can
   appeal to the WG W3C Process.

3. The DID WG will determine that some normative MUST
   statements do not need to be machine-testable, and no
   tests will be written for them, but the statements will
   remain as normative MUST statements.

4. The entire DID Resolution section will not be machine
   testable.

Statements we need clarity on wrt. representation-specific entries:

1. The representation-specific entries go into the DID
   Document data model.

2. The representation-specific entries go into some other
   data model.

3. The representation-specific entries go into the
   DID Document data model AND some representation-
   specific map.

-- manu

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Received on Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:05:03 UTC