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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
I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
Microsoft has already lined up the tech in their products. So I'm confident that it's just a matter of time before it becomes available in a shop nearby.
azure-identity==1.7.1
azure-digitaltwins-core==1.1.0
azure-cognitiveservices-vision-face==0.5.0
azure-cognitiveservices-anomalydetector==0.3.0
azure-communication-identity==1.0.1I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
Most methods are based on blockchain networks.
But there are some that work without blockchains. Like IOTA, IPFS, p2p, web, etc.
I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
Microsoft has already lined up the tech in their products. So I'm confident that it's just a matter of time before it becomes available in a shop nearby.
I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
Microsoft has already lined up the tech in their products. So I'm confident that it's just a matter of time before it becomes available in a shop nearby.
Why not simply a uri with an uuid in it?
I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
Both Google and Mozilla objected to this standard because the "method" is left undefined. W3C overruled them. https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/w3c_overrules_objecti...
If this ID standard included a way to use a centrally-controlled email address (the defacto ID standard today that works just fine for most legal activities) or a social login then maybe some of the bigger players would be onboard and it would take hold. As is it seems like it’s just gonna be another crypto fad.
I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The "spec" is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic "concepts". The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it's the "methods" that actually must have their own specification and actually "do something". Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they're blockchain centric. The entire concept is "jack of…
The standard has grown out of the blockchain space, because they finally offered a way to do decentralized PKI. Most methods are based on blockchain networks. But there are some that work without blockchains. Like IOTA, IPFS, p2p, web, etc.
I assume you'll have a cryptographic key to state that a DID belongs to you. But what happens if that key get lost/stolen? You lose all you online presence with no way to recover it?
Issuers of credentials can ensure that they have an experience date, so you can get a new cred issued with a new key, after the old is lost.
Also, there are services that help to recover your key.