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An EXPERIMENTAL charter for the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-wg-charter/
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Odd verbage hard to parse #60

Open nadalin opened 5 years ago

nadalin commented 5 years ago

"DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject to means for trustable interactions with that subject"

I'm not sure about this sentence as it would be hard to parse for non-native English speakers

TallTed commented 5 years ago

Do you have any suggestions for rewording?

nadalin commented 5 years ago

DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject for trustable interactions with that subject

TallTed commented 5 years ago

DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject for trustable interactions with that subject

This does not seem to resolve your stated concern. I am a native English speaker, and I cannot parse this, which appears to be not so much a rewording of the original as a removal of two words ("to means") which are key to the original sentence's meaning. I cannot imagine that a non-native English speaker would be able to parse it any better. Any other suggestions?

nadalin commented 5 years ago

I don't understand the "to means" please explain how that applies and then I may be able to suggest alternative text

msporny commented 5 years ago

@nadalin, what about this as a replacement?

"DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject to one or more mechanisms that may be used for trustable interactions with that subject."

talltree commented 5 years ago

I'm fine with that.