Re: Implementation required for DID Method registration?

We could also allow listings of implementations from different vendors and corresponding test suite results per did method, not unlike the VC impl report (https://w3c.github.io/vc-test-suite/implementations/). One or more implementations with valid test suite results could be the definition of IMPLEMENTED.

On Fri, May 7, 2021, at 9:20 PM, Kyle Den Hartog wrote:
> +1 to Manu's idea of having some barrier of entry to distinguish between the different DID methods and +1 to Markus' additions to this definition around a method remaining provisional until it's made compliant with the DID test suite.
> 
> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 3:57 AM Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com> wrote:
>> I like the idea of PROVISIONAL and IMPLEMENTED.
>> 
>> PROVISIONAL: You have a specification, but you either have no
>> implementation, or an implementation that is not (yet) compliant with
>> DID Core 1.0.
>> 
>> IMPLEMENTED: You have a specification and implementation that is
>> compliant with DID Core 1.0, and you have submitted an implementation
>> report to the DID test suite.
>> 
>> Markus
>> 
>> On 07.05.21 14:18, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> > Should we require DID Method implementations to have an implementation in the
>> > DID test suite to register the DID Method?
>> >
>> > Should we mark DID Method implementations as "IMPLEMENTED", instead of
>> > "PROVISIONAL" if they have a test in the test suite?
>> >
>> > I'm trying to figure out how we incentivize people to demonstrate that they
>> > did more than just throwing some ideas down in a markdown file for their DID
>> > Method... as in, they actually implemented something...
>> >
>> > So, the states would be at least: "PROVISIONAL" and "IMPLEMENTED". Both 
>> have
>> > objective tests. "PROVISIONAL" is "you have a spec that meets all the DID
>> > Method requirements", and "IMPLEMENTED" is "you submitted an implementation to
>> > the did-test-suite that demonstrates conformance to the DID Core specification".
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > -- manu
>> >
>> 
>> 
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