- From: David Baron via WBS Mailer <sysbot+wbs@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 01:12:02 +0000
- To: public-new-work@w3.org
The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review: Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for Mozilla Foundation by David Baron. The reviewer's organization does not support this Charter for the reasons cited in comments but is not raising a Formal Objection. Additional comments about the proposal: We're opposed to this charter, but we're not formally objecting because we think it's likely to happen anyway and it isn't a priority for us to argue about it. We don't think chartering this group is a good use of W3C's resources. It doesn't appear to be relevant to the web, and we think this work has real risks for user privacy and security. Despite the name, it's not clear to us that this work will produce something decentralized. The cost of reaching interoperability on new DID methods makes this appear more centralized than URIs, where the cost of registering a domain is low and well-understood. It also builds a technology that must be used quite carefully to avoid risks to privacy, and which risks building systems that require individuals to maintain unnecessarily high levels of technical literacy in order to maintain their own privacy and security. Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/did-wg-2019/ until 2019-08-31. Regards, The Automatic WBS Mailer
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