[Overall Scope] What is considered Normative (and in-scope), Informative (and in-scope) and just plain out of scope?

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[Overall Scope] What is considered Normative (and in-scope), Informative (and in-scope) and just plain out of scope? #158

Closed mwherman2000 closed 5 years ago

mwherman2000 commented 5 years ago

In terms of the scope of the draft DID spec, what is considered Normative (and in-scope), Informative (and in-scope) and just plain out of scope?

This is closely related to issue https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/issues/157 but different. It's is also related to issue https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/issues/138.

I propose the following green highlight regions of the INDY ARM be considered Normative topics (and in-scope); yellow regions encompass Informative (Not Normative) topics ...and may or may not be considered in-scope.

INDY ARM Reference: Hyperledger Indy/Sovrin Comprehensive Architecture Reference Model (INDY ARM) - latest version

TomCJones commented 5 years ago

IMHO it is a duplicate of 138

mwherman2000 commented 5 years ago

Closed as a duplicate of #138. The text of this issue has been copied/moved over to #138.

mwherman2000 commented 5 years ago

In addition to the above diagram, I believe each layer in the diagrams below potentially represent Normative sections of the draft DID spec ...either physically part of the draft DID specification or parted out into their own related specifications (e.g. This has already be accomplished with the DID Resolution spec).

DID 7-Layer Model Draft document for discussion purposes

talltree commented 5 years ago

I very very strongly oppose any suggestion that a DID is not verifiable. The very definition of a DID includes (but is not limited to) that it is a cryptographically verifiable identifier. Full stop.

That does not mean that there cannot be multiple ways of associating a DID with its key material in order to do that verification. But that does not (and should not) take a seven-layer model.