<story><title>Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs</title><url>https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>There is an interesting paper on using DID in combination with ActivityPub [0] presented in the &amp;#x27;Rebooting the Web-of-Trust&amp;#x27; [1] event in Fall 2017.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ActivityPub implementations at the present moment rely on HTTPS as their transport, which in turn relies on two centralized systems: DNS and SSL certificate authorities. Is there any way to bring self-sovereignty to the federated social web?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Thankfully there is; ActivityPub was written intentionally to be layerable on any protocol that can support HTTP GET and POST verbs. The Decentralized Identifiers specification looks to be a good fit for ActivityPub.&lt;p&gt;[..]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Here we see an example of Alyssa&amp;#x27;s profile that is entirely free of traditional centralized DNS authorities. We were able to look up Alyssa&amp;#x27;s object via her DID, but we still have access to all her endpoints, which in this case are pointing to Tor Hidden Services. No central DNS required!&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;WebOfTrustInfo&amp;#x2F;rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;topics-and-advance-readings&amp;#x2F;activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md#distributed-identity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;WebOfTrustInfo&amp;#x2F;rebooting-the-web-of-trust...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weboftrust.info&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weboftrust.info&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs</title><url>https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>This is really annoying as the technical term for the identifier of a phone number--one of the most prototypical centralized identifiers--is also a &amp;quot;DID&amp;quot;: a Direct Inward Dialing (number, but we don&amp;#x27;t say &amp;quot;number&amp;quot;). So now &amp;quot;in the future, people won&amp;#x27;t tell each other their DID to let people call them, they will give them their DID&amp;quot; :&amp;#x2F;.</text></comment>