Open wip-abramson opened 1 month ago
It cannot be a relative URL.
See: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#verification-methods
The value of the controller property MUST be a string that conforms to the rules in 3.1 DID Syntax.
So it should be the same DID as in the top-level id
field.
Interesting, so the pattern should be.
I guess you probably should also check if a verificationMethod already has a controller before setting it aswell. Since people could create intermediate DID documents with controllers for verificationMethods that are intentionally not the DID of the document.
A DID method I am working on (did:btc1) supports a
method-id
that is an encoding of an intermediate DID document representation. E.g.did:btc:<intermediateDocHash>
.In these cases, what value should I put in the
controller
property of the intermediate representations verificationMethods?The
controller
property is a required field for verificationMethod. I believe this can be a relative URL, but I am not sure what is the appropriate relative URL in this case. Is it just empty quotes? Or is it#id
? Or something else.Alternatively, I could populate the
controller
properties of the verificationMethods in the intermediate DID document representation after generating the DID just as I do with theid
field. But ideally there is a relative URL solution I can use.