Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

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Post by Tomte » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 11:35 AM UTC

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
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Post by dsimmons » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:41 PM UTC

In some ways it's surprising that it took us so long to arrive here, but very exciting that things are moving in this direction nonetheless!

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Post by anonymousDan » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:47 PM UTC

Can someone explain how they are actually implemented? How/where can I create a new DID?

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Post by jfk13 » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:48 PM UTC

Worth recalling that some major concerns have been expressed about this stuff. See discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939871

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Post by m33k44 » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:51 PM UTC

This relies on public-key cryptography? If that is the case, then who is responsible for maintaining the private key? If that responsibility is with the user, then what happens if the user loses the private key? Does the user loses the identity as well? Is there a way to recover that?

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Post by sylvain_kerkour » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:51 PM UTC

Here is a link to the spec for those who, like me, found weird that it was missing from the announcement: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

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Post by jfk13 » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:57 PM UTC

Interesting that the announcement includes long lists of "testimonials" from W3C members and from "industry", but there are some glaring omissions. Why no endorsement from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Mozilla? Even smaller players like Opera and Brave are missing.

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Post by detaro » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 1:15 PM UTC

jfk13 wrote: post #7

Interesting that the announcement includes long lists of "testimonials" from W3C members and from "industry", but there are some glaring omissions. Why no endorsement from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Mozilla? Even smaller players like Opera and Brave are missing.

Google and Mozilla objected: https://www.w3.org/2022/06/DIDRecommendationDecision.html

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Post by PretzelPirate » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 1:35 PM UTC

jfk13 wrote: post #7

Interesting that the announcement includes long lists of "testimonials" from W3C members and from "industry", but there are some glaring omissions. Why no endorsement from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Mozilla? Even smaller players like Opera and Brave are missing.

It is confusing because Microsoft works on Decentralized Identity and would almost certainly have wanted to be involved with this.

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Post by t_mann » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

m33k44 wrote: post #5

This relies on public-key cryptography? If that is the case, then who is responsible for maintaining the private key? If that responsibility is with the user, then what happens if the user loses the private key? Does the user loses the identity as well? Is there a way to recover that?

There'll surely be custodial services if this takes off.