Episode 057: 10‐17‐2024 Latest developments in DIDs - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: Latest developments in DIDs
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Markus Sabadello, Founder Danube Technologies
Description
Decentralied Identifiers (DIDs) are being used in numerous digital identity projects around the world and serve as the basis for Verifiable Credentials (VC) and many other technical specifications and protocols. At W3C, a new DID Working Group has been launched to update and expand on the existing DID standard. Let's take a look at the current state and recent developments around DIDs!
Homework
Extra Credit:
- https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
- https://w3c.github.io/did-resolution/
- https://w3c.github.io/did-extensions/
Takeaways
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An application may need DID resolution if it supports credentials issued by several differen issuers, each with that requires a different DID method.
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DIDs make a lot of sense for referencing stuff on the blockchain, which has no traditional internet address. But DID methods that rely on the Web are also common. A web address may be part of the DID identifier.
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A new area of DID resolution is to potentially include paths or parameters in the request, enabling more complex business rules for resolution.
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Using DIDs for identification of credentials stored in wallets supports a lot of flexibility with regard to the best way to deliver that credential--blockchain, web, pigeon, etc.