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W3C Decentralized Identifier Specification v1.0
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Normatively reference Controller Document #854

Open msporny opened 4 months ago

msporny commented 4 months ago

There is now a Controller Document specification that is on the W3C Recommendation Track through the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group. It is, fundamentally, the DID Core specification but generalized to just the document (not resolution) and allows any URL. The DID Core specification might want to use that specification as the base specification (as it can be done in a way that won't change implementations).

iherman commented 4 months ago

It is not only the DID Core specification. The vocabulary document must be rewritten, too. Almost all the terms in that document should refer to the controller document as for their formal definitions.

(I actually wonder whether that document should not be fundamentally changed. At present, it is not an RDF Vocabulary document, it is an HTML version of the @context, in some sense. Something to be discussed...)

peacekeeper commented 3 months ago

I have already been getting questions about the controller document and how it relates to a DID document, and I think the best approach will be to just reference controller documents from DID Core, instead of defining DID documents from scratch as it is now.

iherman commented 3 months ago

The issue was discussed in a meeting on 2024-08-14

View the transcript ### 2. DID WG and Controller Doc. _See github issue [did-core#854](https://github.com/w3c/did-core/issues/854)._ **Gabe Cohen:** The DID WG was kicked off recently, many of you have attended, one of the things we've discussed is aligning w/ Controller Document. … It seems like consensus is forming in DID Core to remove content from that document and point to Controller Document. Timeline seems fine for VCWG Controller Document and DID Core. Just calling that out, we'd like folks to participate if they want to.
msporny commented 2 months ago

While this is ready for PR, we shouldn't do the PR until the Controller Document is in Candidate Recommendation, which is expected in November 2024.

pchampin commented 2 months ago

This was discussed during the did meeting on 2024-09-05: https://www.w3.org/2024/09/05-did-minutes.html#t04