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Web5 Spec
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Decide on whether we're deprecating `did:key` #13

Closed mistermoe closed 3 weeks ago

mistermoe commented 10 months ago

[!WARNING] hold off on implementing any additional functionality related to did:key until a decision is made

[!NOTE] Hoping to land a decision here by EOD 11/14/2023 US

both web5-kt and web5-js have did:key implementations. We need to decide whether we want to deprecate did:key and when.

I imagine we'll likely want to wait until we have did:jwk implemented in both sdks.

If we intend to continue maintaining did:key we need to produce test vectors.

decentralgabe commented 10 months ago

There are did:key test vectors in the spec repo. That said, I believe multibase is unnecessary complexity for us. Microsoft and others are moving towards did:jwk since JWKs are widely adopted and standardized (multiformats couldn't get into IETF).

I recommend we move quickly to implement did:jwk (with test vectors for the key types we support) and deprecate did:key.

decentralgabe commented 3 weeks ago

Yes we are!