Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Review Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) (#216)

Thanks, @msporny! We've discussed it at length in our TAG face-to-face meeting in Paris.

Two questions to help us in our review:

1. We found ourselves struggling to work out what use cases you are trying to support. What is the user need?  When would I need a DID, and what would I do with it? It would be useful for our review if you would produce an explainer. (We've produced a [template](https://github.com/w3ctag/w3ctag.github.io/blob/master/explainers.md), which might be useful).
We didn't find those answers in your primer, since it starts from the explanation of what a DID is.  We would really like to understand the need from a user's perspective, which already exists in daily life, written in clear non-technical language. 

2. Also, does the group have or anticipate a mechanism for interoperability with current content loading?  What relationship to HTTP do you envision? The question of whether DIDs are actually compatible with the web may be different depending on how they interact with HTTP.  And if I were type a DID into a browser, application or user agent -- what would happen?

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