Credentials Community Group - W3C, 2019

Type

Report

Title

A Primer for Decentralized Identifiers - An introduction to self-administered identifiers for curious people - Draft Community Group Report

Authors

Credentials Community Group (W3C)

Year

2019

Harvard

Credentials Community Group (W3C), 2019. A Primer for Decentralized Identifiers - An introduction to self-administered identifiers for curious people - Draft Community Group Report. W3C.

Links

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-primer/

Abstract

A Decentralized Identifier (DID) is a new type of identifier that is globally unique, resolveable with high availability, and cryptographically verifiable. DIDs are typically associated with cryptographic material, such as public keys, and service endpoints, for establishing secure communication channels. DIDs are useful for any application that benefits from self-administered, cryptographically verifiable identifiers such as personal identifiers, organizational identifiers, and identifiers for Internet of Things scenarios. For example, current commercial deployments of W3C Verifiable Credentials heavily utilize Decentralized Identifiers to identify people, organizations, and things and to achieve a number of security and privacy-protecting guarantees. This document is an introduction to the concept of Decentralized Identifiers.

(Credentials Community Group - W3C, 2019)


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