Re: New proposal for the DID WG charter

On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 2:35 PM Markus Sabadello <markus@danubetech.com>
wrote:

> I think your earlier point in this thread sums up the whole discussion
> really well:
>
> "if a client (or resolver) receives a did: URL whose method it doesn't
> understand, what's it supposed to do?”
>

This in an important feature, not a flaw. The answer is “we don’t have a
mutual trust model”, and the client should inform the user.

Avoiding this a legitimate answer means we’d have to resort to a global
trust model, which is not only risky, but I believe infeasible. Like
Arrow’s Theorem is for voting, there is no perfect decentralization — one
criteria will interfere with meeting a different one.

We have to be willing to accept sometimes the answer is “untrusted”, and
stop.

— Christopher Allen

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