Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management

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bumblefudge@activitypub.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de haha i think that was a typo i meant normal dereferencing (which is admittedly already an annoying term of Semantic Web art that I only use to help people bashing their head against these specs for the first time). plainly speaking, a "web-based DID" (any of the did:web successors linked above) gives you rules for translating, e.g., did:webvh:bumblefudge.com:1234 into https://bumblefudge.com/1234/.well-known/did.json -- you can just make that second string into the id property of an actor, and put a normal AP actor object in the file you get back at that URL and for the AP world (that doesn't have to know or care what a DID is) that's just... an Actor. The controller of that Actor can use the the first string in DID-based system, if those ever exist at scale. To date, the only pertinent place you can use a DID but not an Actor ID is in... an At Protocol URI, i.e.
at://did:webvh:1234/lexicon/recordkey
(sidenote, yes, those colons are invalid, dropping the did:and inverting the rest of the authority to 1234:didwebvh would be a more conformant URI)

Anyways, hope that's helpful to whatever research and/or design you're doing, I've probably ranted enough for one thread :sweat_smile:

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