Saluton TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0.

A decentralized identifier, or DID, is a new URI scheme. Unlike existing HTTP URLs, email addresses, commercial account identifiers, most government identifiers, etc., the DID is purpose-designed to support cryptographically-controlled identifiers backed by decentralized oracles (such as a distributed ledger).

Syntactically, a DID looks like this: did:btcr:xyv2-xzpq-q9wa-p7t.

The three parts of a DID, separated by colons, are:

• The string “did”, representing the did URI scheme.
• A DID Method, in this case btcr, that must be one of the values in the DID Method Registry
• A string that is interpreted according to the rules of the specific DID method, in this case xyv2-xzpq-q9wa-p7t.

Requested Links:

• Explainer: https://github.com/w3c/did-wg/blob/master/did-explainer.md
• Specification URL: https://w3c.github.io/did-core/
• Tests: Under Development https://github.com/w3c/did-test-suite
• Security and Privacy self-review: Under development, we will update with a link here when it is complete.
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/w3c/did-core/
• Primary contacts:
  • Brent Zundel, brentzundel, Evernym (co-chair)
  • Daniel Burnett, burnburn, Invited Expert (co-chair)
  • Manu Sporny, msporny, Digital Bazaar (primary editor)
  • Markus Sabadello, peacekeeper, Danube Tech (co-editor)
  • Drummond Reed, talltree, Evernym (co-editor)
• Organization(s)/project(s) driving the specification: The member organizations of the group members.
• Key pieces of existing multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this specification: https://github.com/w3c/did-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Adiscuss+
• External status/issue trackers for this specification: N/A

Further details:

• I have reviewed the TAG's API Design Principles

• Relevant time constraints or deadlines: We are planning to request transition to Candidate Recommendation after TPAC 2020.

• The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/

• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: We are wrapping up some issues that were contentious, but they are not expected to remain unresolved.

• This work is being funded by: The member organizations of the group members.

  Portions of the work on this specification have been funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate under contracts HSHQDC-16-R00012-H-SB2016-1-002 and HSHQDC-17-C-00019. The content of this specification does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Government and no official endorsement should be inferred.

  Work on this specification has also been supported by the Rebooting the Web of Trust community.

You should also know that we are not seeking feedback on any particular part of the specification. We look forward to receiving general feedback from you, but this specification does not define any new web APIs nor add requirements to any browser vendors. We understand that you may, therefore, have less feedback for us than for other work.

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as:

🐛 open issues in our GitHub repo for each point of feedback

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