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DID Revision Proposal

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith (attributed by the repository; the document names no author) · 2017-11 · checked 2026-10-15

A 2017 proposal for modifying the W3C Decentralized Identifier (DID) specification so that key management is a first-order feature and existing URL parsing tools can be reused. It compares URL and DID ABNF syntax, discusses DID fragments, self-certifying data, operations and hierarchical deterministic key generation, and ends with an email exchange about DID path syntax. Predates KERI.

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