The World Extensive Net Consortium (W3C) introduced that Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 is now an official net commonplace.
The brand new kind of verifiable identifier doesn’t require a centralized registry and it’ll allow people and organizations to take higher management of their on-line info whereas offering better safety and privateness, based on W3C.
Customers will be capable of take e mail addresses and social community addresses together with them every time they need to swap between service suppliers, and this info can final for so long as their controller needs to proceed utilizing them in an identical method to how some people can take their cell quantity with them when switching carriers.
DIDs additionally allow the controller to confirm possession of the DID utilizing cryptography, permitting for extra reliable transactions on-line.
“Essentially, Decentralized Identifiers are a brand new kind of worldwide unambiguous identifier that can be utilized to determine any topic (e.g., an individual, a company, a tool, a product, a location, even an summary entity or an idea). Every DID resolves to a DID doc that accommodates the cryptographic materials and different metadata for controlling the DID,” W3C wrote in a weblog submit.
The foundational pillars of DIDs are:
- They don’t require a central issuing company and are decentralized
- They don’t require the continued operation of an underlying group (persistent)
- Management of DIDs, and the knowledge they’re related to, might be confirmed cryptographically
- DID metadata might be found
