<story><title>Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/2022/07/pressrelease-did-rec.html.en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cplli</author><text>I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The &amp;quot;spec&amp;quot; is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic &amp;quot;concepts&amp;quot;. The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;methods&amp;quot; that actually must have their own specification and actually &amp;quot;do something&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they&amp;#x27;re blockchain centric.&lt;p&gt;The entire concept is &amp;quot;jack of all trades, master of none&amp;quot;. I actually hope to be wrong, and see some more fully fledged implementations&amp;#x2F;examples of real world use-cases, because I love the idea of federated&amp;#x2F;decentralized identity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hosh</author><text>Both Google and Mozilla objected to this standard because the &amp;quot;method&amp;quot; is left undefined. W3C overruled them. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;w3c_overrules_objections&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;w3c_overrules_objecti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation</title><url>https://www.w3.org/2022/07/pressrelease-did-rec.html.en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cplli</author><text>I was initially pretty hyped when I read the abstract for DIDs, bookmarked the spec and read it later. The &amp;quot;spec&amp;quot; is a bunch of buzzwords and vague generic &amp;quot;concepts&amp;quot;. The DIDs themselves mean basically nothing, it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;methods&amp;quot; that actually must have their own specification and actually &amp;quot;do something&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Another feeling you can quickly get from DIDs is that they&amp;#x27;re blockchain centric.&lt;p&gt;The entire concept is &amp;quot;jack of all trades, master of none&amp;quot;. I actually hope to be wrong, and see some more fully fledged implementations&amp;#x2F;examples of real world use-cases, because I love the idea of federated&amp;#x2F;decentralized identity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k__</author><text>The standard has grown out of the blockchain space, because they finally offered a way to do decentralized PKI.&lt;p&gt;Most methods are based on blockchain networks.&lt;p&gt;But there are some that work without blockchains. Like IOTA, IPFS, p2p, web, etc.</text></comment>