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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon decentralized-identity

Register DID Method

Open OR13 opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

  • https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-registry

Probably not ok for it to be did:github, maybe someone at github can help?

OR13 avatar May 15 '19 19:05 OR13

Maybe we can work with hyperledger / aries community to accomplish this:

https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/129

OR13 avatar Aug 14 '19 19:08 OR13

I'm a bit critical of something like did:github:OR13 for the same reason I've been critical of did:facebook:markus.sabadello (see Facebook DID method specification). In the DID spec community we have decided not to "prohibit" such DID methods, because 1. we can't, and 2. it's hard to define "decentralized". But in my opinion, a Github username is NOT a "Decentralized Identifier". OTOH I agree that "non-decentralized DIDs" can still be useful because of the standardized identifier syntax and resolution mechanism they provide.

peacekeeper avatar Aug 15 '19 15:08 peacekeeper