Oskar-van-Deventer
commented
5 years ago Hi Daniel,
I agree that the question is not urgent now, as there are no major implementations or business dependencies. But once those are there, it may be too late.
As far as I can judge, openssi is an initiative by a few good-natured individuals without much formal governance. That should be fine for now, but I am not sure whether the term "neutral" is applicable, especially once the business interests start growing.
Given the open-source nature of Hyperledger, as part of the Linux Foundation, its well-established governance, and the fact that Peer DID is getting discussed at Hyperledger Aries anyway, that body would be my preference on the shorter term.
On the longer term, I see the open-source implementations remain with Hyperledger, while the specification could be maintained by a more formal organisation with more strict governance. It would be good to at least brainstorm a bit what would be arguments to go W3C, Oasis or other.
Oskar
dhh1128
In #82 , @Oskar-van-Deventer raised the question of the spec's permanent home. I have not been focused on that question, and I still don't know if it's an urgent question. But I wanted to open a ticket where the merits of finding one or more larger sponsors of the spec, and a place where the spec's github repo calls home, can be explored.
Some possible answers to this question include: