Re: Fwd: Acceptance of DID DRAFT Specification as a W3C Credentials CG Work Item

On 7/25/17 7:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> FYI: Decentralized Identifiers Specification ...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Christopher Allen* <ChristopherA@blockstream.com
> <mailto:ChristopherA@blockstream.com>>
> Date: 26 July 2017 at 00:20
> Subject: Acceptance of DID DRAFT Specification as a W3C Credentials CG
> Work Item
> To: "W3C Credentials CG (Public List)" <public-credentials@w3.org
> <mailto:public-credentials@w3.org>>
>
>
> At today’s W3C Credentials CG meeting there was unanimous support for
> accepting the DID DRAFT Specification as one of our new work items.
> There were +9 votes for, none against.
>
> The DRAFT spec currently is at:
>
> https://opencreds.github.io/did-spec/
> <https://opencreds.github.io/did-spec/>
>
> The Github repository for this specification is here:
>
> https://github.com/opencreds/did-spec
> <https://github.com/opencreds/did-spec>
>
> The issue tracker is here:
>
> https://github.com/opencreds/did-spec/issues
> <https://github.com/opencreds/did-spec/issues>
>
> These will move if these items are accepted.
>
> If there are no substantive objections to this mailing list before our
> next call on Tuesday August 1st at 12pm ET the chairs will declare
> this draft as officially accepted for additional work by our Community
> Group.
>
> — Christopher Allen


Hi Melvin,

My only concern is that did: scheme URIs depend soley on the 
"/.well-known/" pattern [1] for resolver implementation. Net effect,
user's still have to control a domain as part of the quest for
self-management of identity.

An HTTP URI as Agent Identifier (as is already delivered via WebID)
doesn't have this problem, and resolution is implicit (if you leverage #
e.g., #this). In addition, it wouldn't break what they are trying to
achieve (i.e., identity explicitly controlled by individuals rather than
organizations).

My concern is that this is like WebFinger,  but using a different URI
scheme i.e., did: as opposed to mailto: .

Links:

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

[2] https://opencreds.github.io/did-spec/#did-resolvers -- which says
nothing about "/.well-known/" pattern even though that's the requirement.

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