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title: "Peer DIDs moving to DIF's ID Working Group"
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date: "2020-04-07"
year: 2020
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# Peer DIDs moving to DIF's ID Working Group

A Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) blog post of April 2020 by Daniel Hardman announcing that the peer DID method specification was moving to DIF's Identifiers and Discovery working group.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/peer-dids-moving-to-difs-id-working-group-7f1664bcbf30 (license not recorded).
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