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Standardize did:key #15

Closed msporny closed 2 years ago

msporny commented 3 years ago

This issue has been raised for discussion by the DID WG based on feedback in Google's Formal Objection to DID Core 1.0:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-did-wg/2021Oct/0022.html

Google has suggested that while did:key does not meet their "truly decentralized" requirement for a DID Method, that they suggest that the DID WG standardizes it.

Should a future DID WG Charter standardize did:key?

jyasskin commented 3 years ago

A nit: did:key is decentralized. Its utility problem is rather that it can't deal with key loss or compromise, since the identity is identical with the public key. It's not sufficient for demonstrating that the did: scheme's abstractness is needed, since it doesn't implement all 4 "virtual methods", but as Manu said, it's still worth standardizing.

brentzundel commented 2 years ago

Beginning standardization of DID Methods was added to the charter in #20 One of these may be did:key