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Showing 9 reports across 7 families, filtered by title or shortname containing the string 'identifiers'.

WebRTC

Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API

Candidate Standard
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Tags
Media
Web API
Latest Candidate Recommendation Snapshot

DID

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.1

Draft Standard
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Tags
Privacy
Security

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

Standard
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Tags
Privacy
Security
Translations for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0
日本語
한국어
português (Brasil)
Tagalog
中文（简体）

Use Cases and Requirements for Decentralized Identifiers

Note
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Privacy
Security

Controlled Identifiers

Controlled Identifiers v1.0

Standard
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Privacy
Security

Web Payments

Payment Method Identifiers

Standard
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Translation for Payment Method Identifiers
日本語

Internationalization for Spec Developers

Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web

Draft Standard
- history
Tags
i18n

Web Architecture

Best Practices for Fragment Identifiers and Media Type Definitions

Draft Standard
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WSDL

WSDL 1.1 Element Identifiers

Note
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