- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 11:51:28 -0400
- To: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
- Cc: Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>, Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com>, Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org>, public-did-wg@w3.org, achille.zappa@insight-centre.org, phil.archer@gs1.org, j-yoshii@kodansha.co.jp, steve.cole@merchantadvisorygroup.org, msporny@digitalbazaar.com, charlesl@benetech.org, brent.zundel@gendigital.com, edwardguild@geotab.com, hyojin22.song@lge.com, Raphael.Troncy@eurecom.fr, orie@transmute.industries, mprorock@mesur.io, tsiegman@wiley.com, chris.needham@bbc.co.uk, Fabien.Gandon@inria.fr, mashbean@moda.gov.tw, christian.liebel@thinktecture.com, dudley.collinson@uac.edu.au, wangyf@sziit.edu.cn, lehors@us.ibm.com, hober@apple.com, joe@legreq.com, tantek@cs.stanford.edu, elena@holopin.io, w3c@rgrant.org, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Team Archive <w3t-archive@w3.org>
On 01/11/2023 11:34, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > Since https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/did-core-pr/results > <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/did-core-pr/results>, Chris and I > have been suggesting that DIDs should match URLs in standardizing some > schemes at the same time as standardizing the URL syntax. For DIDs, that > would likely be the ones that are already being used interoperably. > > Then, like with URLs, when a client receives a method it doesn't > support, and its developers look up the definition in the registry > <https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/>, they can look at the > standardization status to figure out how stable and vetted the method > is. This can inform their decision of whether to implement or ask the > sender to send something different. Ah — this seems different from a standardised algorithm though? Reading the above, it feels like your concerns would be addressed by a registry (that would presumably do a bit more than the Note), essentially something IANA-style. Is that the case? -- Robin Berjon (he/him) Governance & Standards at Protocol Labs https://berjon.com/ - https://bsky.app/profile/robin.berjon.com
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