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w3c-ccg / did-wg-charter

An EXPERIMENTAL charter for the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-wg-charter/
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DID method implementation is out of scope #32

Closed kimdhamilton closed 5 years ago

kimdhamilton commented 5 years ago

Clarify that publishing a specific DID method implementation is out of scope, and that the DID specification is modeled after the URI spec (RFC 3986)

Addresses #21.

jandrieu commented 5 years ago

I think we should actually allow defining methods as an option.

In particular, I'm sensitive to the pushback we've had around method namespace collisions. There may be a solution using a meta-method that, by necessity, needs to be standardized.

I'm not sure that's the right answer or even a good one, but I don't want to preclude the DIDWG from considering it. This is especially relevant since the CCG as the namespace czar (because of the did method registry) is not quite a complete solution.

msporny commented 5 years ago

Merge conflicts, rebase, please.

peacekeeper commented 5 years ago

"DID method implementation" or "DID method specification"? (The latter is the term currently used in the DID spec.)

I assume both specifying DID methods AND implementing them is out of scope?

kimdhamilton commented 5 years ago

Merge conflict fixed