Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C

Post by shiftingleft » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 11:11 PM UTC

    The DID Core spec has not demonstrated any degree of practical interoperability, instead delegating that to a registry of 50+ methods.

    The DID architectural approach appears to encourage divergence rather than convergence & interoperability. The presence of 50+ entries in the registry, without any actual interoperability, seems to imply that there are greater incentives to introduce a new method, than to attempt to interoperate with any one of a number of growing existing methods.

    The lack of restrictions on the registry are allowing methods diametrically opposed to the principles of the group & spec, and methods which are actively globally harmful to sustainability.

    [W]e believe the DID specification may not be fixable (MUST NOT become a Recommendation)."

Post by aidenn0 » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 11:52 PM UTC

cratermoon wrote: post #3

shiftingleft wrote: post #2

"Mozilla: The DID Core spec has not demonstrated any degree of practical interoperability, instead delegating that to a registry of 50+ methods. The DID architectural approach appears to encourage divergence rather than convergence & interoperability. The presence of 50+ entries in the registry, without any actual interoperability, seems to imply that there are greater incentives to introduce a new method, than to at…

Where have I heard this before? https://www.wired.com/2012/07/developer-quits-oauth-2-0-spec...

Post by Taek » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:00 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:07 AM UTC

Taek wrote: post #6

I've been following DID for a while and I really don't think its the right approach. The voices of concern from Mozilla and Google are spot on: the DID specs expect everyone to coordinate on finding the right structure for different types of data but the real world is messy and no "correct" structure exists. DID in my opinion is unlikely to succeed. Real builders don't use it, because it is cumbersome and requires ag…

Post by abernard1 » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:21 AM UTC

Taek wrote: post #6

I've been following DID for a while and I really don't think its the right approach. The voices of concern from Mozilla and Google are spot on: the DID specs expect everyone to coordinate on finding the right structure for different types of data but the real world is messy and no "correct" structure exists. DID in my opinion is unlikely to succeed. Real builders don't use it, because it is cumbersome and requires ag…