Re: Thinking about Webfinger

> On May 6, 2023, at 15:12, Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us> wrote:

> Why isn't the existing WebFinger specification sufficient to allow useful lookup of did documents?

For did:web — your example — absolutely. In fact, I believe did:web should not exist because http identifiers can do everything that did web can do, have slightly more of a market presence :-) and with webfinger or an approach like that, one can easily return a DID document. I pointed that out in https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-web/issues/69#issuecomment-1366304344 in particular given that the did:http algorithm cannot process all http URLs while webfinger can.

Are you also proposing it for other did methods, like say, did:key? If so, how?

Cheers,




Johannes.


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