- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:07:41 -0400
- To: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>, Francesca Palombini <francesca.palombini@ericsson.com>
- Cc: W3C DID Working Group <public-did-wg@w3.org>, media-types@ietf.org
Francesca and Murray, there is a question directed toward each of you in your capacities as IETF Area Directors for ART from the W3C DID Working Group: On 2/4/21 8:03 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> So I truly believe this is a zero-cost convention for those who don’t >> care about it. > > And I strongly suspect that as soon as this is allowed, people are going to > start to build a processing model around the suffixes, and make other > assumptions that extend media types in ways that aren't a good idea. > > Anyway, the question was asked and I've said my piece. Bumping this thread up because the W3C Decentralized Identifiers WG is finishing up it's Candidate Recommendation phase in the next few weeks and we still don't have an answer for what Media Type we're allowed to register for DID Documents expressed in JSON-LD. Background here: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/media-types/L0YVPU1zUIlECS8_4ScB5H62GNI/ The W3C DID WG, after consideration of the past year or so of discussion on the topic in media-types@ietf.org and in the DID WG, would like to register: application/did+ld+json Referenced here: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#application-did-ld-json The W3C DID WG believes that it has done everything that was requested of it including 1) create a specification on how to process media types with multiple suffixes and seek feedback, 2) have a discussion that has now occurred with no strong objections for the general strategy (trepidations were registered), and 3) wait for the discussion to settle before moving forward. We formally request that: 1. The registration of application/did+ld+json is allowed to proceed. 2. The "Media Types with Multiple Suffixes" document is progressed along the IETF standards track. We have no strong opinion on the IETF mechanism used to do so. Can the Area Directors please weigh in on this item as we are going to be blocked from proceeding to W3C Proposed Recommendation very soon due to this long-standing issue. -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
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