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Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by tetrisgm »

Great to see some progress with the standard. We’ve been working on generating DIDs for our upcoming users. We’re using IDX + Ceramic as our backend.

For our use case (making web3 profiles like https://shokunin.dns.xyz), it’s cool to have a DID as a chain agnostic ID. I’m curious what people here have been using DIDs for besides that.

Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by smoldesu »

lightgreen wrote: post #3

Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?

That's probably what someone would have said if they saw Facebook 20 years ago.

The intention here is to get out in front of FAANG before they can make their own, proprietary standards for ID. As terrifying as it is, personal identification is going to become a huge part of the next 10 years of computing, and potentially radically change the way we interact with the web.

Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by nerdponx »

lightgreen wrote: post #3

Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?

Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party.

Sounds like a PGP replacement in some ways.

Also possibly an alternative to SSN (for Americans).

Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by refulgentis »

smoldesu wrote: post #4
lightgreen wrote: post #3

Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?

That's probably what someone would have said if they saw Facebook 20 years ago. The intention here is to get out in front of FAANG before they can make their own, proprietary standards for ID. As terrifying as it is, personal identification is going to become a huge part of the next 10 years of computing, and potentially radically change the way we interact with the web.

I'm, sadly, old enough to remember this absolutist argument about OAuth.

I'm curious, what's the risk here?

Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by smoldesu »

refulgentis wrote: post #7
smoldesu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's probably what someone would have said if they saw Facebook 20 years ago. The intention here is to get out in front of FAANG before they can make their own, proprietary standards for ID. As terrifying as it is, personal identification is going to become a huge part of the next 10 years of computing, and potentially radically change the way we interact with the web.

I'm, sadly, old enough to remember this absolutist argument about OAuth. I'm curious, what's the risk here?

"The risk" is a weird, ambiguous ghost in the machine. Maybe it's a result of digital paranoia setting in over the past decade, or maybe it's our response to digital rights abuse. In any case, it's always a good thing when mission-critical infrastructure is democratized like this.

Re: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)

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Post by uberdru »

refulgentis wrote: post #7
smoldesu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's probably what someone would have said if they saw Facebook 20 years ago. The intention here is to get out in front of FAANG before they can make their own, proprietary standards for ID. As terrifying as it is, personal identification is going to become a huge part of the next 10 years of computing, and potentially radically change the way we interact with the web.

I'm, sadly, old enough to remember this absolutist argument about OAuth. I'm curious, what's the risk here?

In my view, it's actually a move toward the PKI/trust layer that we should have implemented at the outset.
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