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Motivations
The DID Method did:web
has found great method has started to get signifiant adoption, but it is still fundamentally flawed by it's trust in DNS and DNS's from a security standpoint by its reliance on DNS trust infrastructure, which is susceptibility to hijacking attacks (among others.other issues). In addition, the did:web method adds further vulnerat
Analogous to http and https `did:web` needs a securing mechanism and that will be specified by did:webs
`did:webs` can help to bridge the gap between existing didcomm based ecosystems and KERI based ecosystems, originally referred to as the "Beautiful Island Problem".
Purpose
To author deliver a specification describing for the did:webs
and did doc resolution along with key material retrieval. DID method meeting the requirements defined in the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) 1.0 specification, including creation, resolution, updating, and deactivation of DID documents along with retreival of secure cryptographic key material. See the following illustration:
Deliverables
The table below lists all deliverables of the KERI Task Forcethis task force:
Acronym | Full Name of Deliverable | Deliverable Type | Link to Draft Deliverable | Lead Authors | Status/Notes |
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did:webs |
| Specification | TBD | Proposal stage |
Chairs
Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a chair:
- Kevin Griffin, GLEIF Kevin Griffin GLEIF
Members
Please add your name to this list in any desired role:
- Primary Editors
- Drummond Reed, Gen
Secondary Editors
- Primary Reviewers
Secondary Reviewers
- Observers
Meeting Schedule
TBD
For all authoritative meeting logistics and Zoom links, please see the ToIP Calendar.
See latest documentation in the GitHub Repo here: LINK
Meeting Agendas and Notes
All meeting agendas and notes are recorded on the did:webs Meeting Page.
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
As a Task Force (TF) of the Technology Stack WG (TSWG), the did:webs TF inherits the IPR terms from the TSWG JDF Charter. These include:
- Copyright mode: Apache2 and IETF Copyright
- Patent mode: Apache2
- Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html.
Mailing List and Communications
This task force uses the following for communications
- Slack: This TF has its own dedicated Slack channel: #tswg-didwebs-tf
- Github: This TF will use GitHub issues for substantive conversations on topics, not Slack. This way the conversation is source controlled.
Specification Generation
We may alternatively use the following formats:
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