Rename to "did-jose"

[oed]

This package now contains many things related to the JOSE spec. We should modularize it to a few different (to be determined) packages.

Suggestion:

• @did-jose/jws
• @did-jose/jwe
• @did-jose/jwt
• @did-jose/jwt-vc
• @did-jose/signing-*
• @did-jose/encryption-*

[peacekeeper]

Hey, since this is a work item of the I&D WG, if you rename it then maybe you could also update the entry in the list of Work Items, and while doing that also check the work item leads that are listed there?

Perhaps we will also ask you at some point to give a general update on the work item progress during one of the weekly I&D WG calls.

[TomCJones]

I am unclear where this label is applied. Jose has a header. Some of what is proposed is already in that header. Perhaps all of it should be in the Jose header. Otherwise difference levels of the code would be involved. That seems wrong.

[oed]

@TomCJones Are you replying to the wrong issue? :)

[awoie]

I agree that renaming/repackaging makes sense but I don't have a strong stance here.

[oed]

@mirceanis Would love to hear your thoughts here!

[mirceanis]

Modularising this repo sounds like a good idea. I'm not yet sure about the actual module layout. I think the goals should be to reduce lib size (and transitive dependencies) for users that only use a subset of modules, and to allow extension of the supported algorithms using user-provided modules.

[oed]

I think the goals should be to reduce lib size (and transitive dependencies) for users that only use a subset of modules, and to allow extension of the supported algorithms using user-provided modules.

Yep agreed! That was what I was aiming for above, e.g. with @did-jose/signing-* representing a specific alg.

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[oed]

This is not stale.

[mirceanis]

The way I see it, the goals of this would be to:

• allow folks to use a subset of features (if they want) to reduce their bundle sizes
• allow alternative implementations of algorithms (stablelib vs noble vs elliptic vs etc..)
• allow extension with other algorithms that are not covered here yet
• [optional] move the did-jwt-vc library here as one of the packages

Perhaps we can start with the alternative/extension use-cases, where the [currently hardcoded] mapping of algorithms to verifiers is made configurable (see #234 as well).

There is also another mapping of algorithms to signers which probably doesn't make much sense anymore, since the signer is expected to be provided externally anyway.

I haven't yet gone through the JWE code to see how we can start to slice it into modules