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Introduction incorrectly states requirements for DID documents #112

Closed dlongley closed 5 years ago

dlongley commented 5 years ago

The introduction states

Each DID Document contains at least three things: cryptographic material, authentication suites, and service endpoints.

https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/blob/gh-pages/index.html#L142-L144

But none of these things are actually requirements for DID documents per the rest of the spec (which I believe to be correct). A DID Document only must have an @context and an identifier, nothing more is strictly required. This is in keeping with the spirit that a DID Document describe anything at all; it needn't be restricted to descriptions of entities that control cryptographic material, can authenticate, and have services, etc. -- despite those representing perhaps the most common use case.

msporny commented 5 years ago

This has been addressed by a PR that has been merged.