Amazing. Looks like Google, Apple, and Mozilla objected to publishing DID as a global web standard *because it was a bunch of hand-wavy specs*. Even Microsoft expressed serious concerns.
"No practical interoperability."
"The specification should have at least one, interoperable method that works out of the box..."
"Centralized methods allowed, in contradiction to WG & spec goals & name."
"It's impossible to review the impact of the core DID specification on the Web without concurrently reviewing the methods it's going to be used with... but none has made it past 'PROVISIONAL' status, and the Note doesn't even define what its Status column means"
https://www.w3.org/2022/03/did-fo-report.html
kevinsmith / Kevin Smith
npub199…5mmsh
2023-01-05 23:06:42
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2023-01-05 23:06:42Event JSON
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"content": "Amazing. Looks like Google, Apple, and Mozilla objected to publishing DID as a global web standard *because it was a bunch of hand-wavy specs*. Even Microsoft expressed serious concerns.\n\n\n\"No practical interoperability.\"\n\n\n\"The specification should have at least one, interoperable method that works out of the box...\"\n\n\n\"Centralized methods allowed, in contradiction to WG \u0026 spec goals \u0026 name.\"\n\n\n\"It's impossible to review the impact of the core DID specification on the Web without concurrently reviewing the methods it's going to be used with... but none has made it past 'PROVISIONAL' status, and the Note doesn't even define what its Status column means\"\n\n\nhttps://www.w3.org/2022/03/did-fo-report.html\n",
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