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[Overview] "Because DIDs reside on a distributed ledger" - not true? #119

Closed mwherman2000 closed 5 years ago

mwherman2000 commented 5 years ago

In https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/#overview, it states....

This design eliminates dependence on centralized registries for identifiers as well as centralized certificate authorities for key management—the standard pattern in hierarchical PKI (public key infrastructure). Because DIDs reside on a distributed ledger, each entity may serve as its own root authority—an architecture referred to as DPKI (decentralized PKI).

  1. "Because DIDs reside on a distributed ledger" What is a DID? If a DID is a character string identifier, then it doesn't live on the the ledger, the DID Document lives on the ledger. See the following diagram...

Hyperledger Indy/Sovrin Comprehensive Architecture Reference Model (INDY ARM) - latest version - bullets (12) thru (16) in both the diagram, Narration, and principles.

Reword/clarify (here and throughout the draft specification).

jandrieu commented 5 years ago

Closing as we have moved this over to the DIDWG did-spec repo.