Re: Bluesky spins out an entity for did:plc

(i think the portability use cases FEP, for all its weaknesses, covers some
more use cases that any proposed did method design would score points by
covering some of!)


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On Sun, Sep 21, 2025, 10:32 AM Juan Caballero <virtualofficehours@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would argue we're better off clarifying the use case for non-webfinger
> discovery and seeing if the work of giving AP implementers (at minimum) a
> new endpoint to implement for a new DID method helps that use case along
> and justifies the upgrade.
>
> more generally tho, I like the idea! just learned long ago that did
> methods are export formats for solutions to many (mostly implicit or
> underanalyzed) usecases. prefer to have ground truth on which solutions
> justify an upgrade
>
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> Juan Caballero, PhD.
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> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 9:55 PM Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-09-20 20:55, emelia wrote:
>> > It's kinda like how people tried to cram absolutely everything into the
>> > webid documents in solid.
>>
>> Kinda?
>>
>> Which people?
>>
>> Tried what?
>>
>> Absolutely everything refers to?
>>
>> As far as I know, there may be two relevant specifications to what you
>> have in mind for your statement. If you had others in mind, please share:
>>
>> https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol
>>
>> https://solid.github.io/webid-profile/
>>
>> Can you point out where in those specs your claim is supported? Or are
>> you referring to specific implementations or published documents?
>>
>> Are you bringing up some Solid/WebID history as if it proves your case,
>> when the technologies and design choices differ? Because if so, that's
>> perhaps kinda like a red herring?
>>
>> I'm not aware of Solid "people" trying to cram absolutely everything
>> into a WebID document, but I'm all ears.
>>
>>  From experience, the vast majority of WebID documents use the WebID URI
>> as the subject. Sure, there can be other statements where it's not (it
>> is not forbidden), but pointing that out feels pedantic.
>>
>> Payloads and notifications in both Solid and ActivityPub often include
>> auxiliary information in order to minimise network requests. Likewise,
>> ActivityPub Activities frequently wrap the Object with considerable
>> detail. Would you consider that to be "cramming everything" into the
>> Activity? Or is it simply a design choice in linked data representation?
>>
>> "Linked data" people / connectionists do not see the world as binary.
>> There is a spectrum of approaches to describing a resource, and in
>> practice, that's just how the web tends to work.
>>
>> -Sarven
>> https://csarven.ca/#i
>>
>

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