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Thanks for the writeup. It’s an interesting protocol, but I’m not sure account mobility and portability is quite as you paint it in your post. The main problem

Thanks for the writeup. It’s an interesting protocol, but I’m not sure account mobility and portability is quite as you paint it in your post. The main problem is that, like email and mastodon, most users will sign up through a service, rather than self-host. I wrote about this in another comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260045

mawise 4y ago
You're 100% on this. That seems to be the whole point of DIDs, but under today's internet I think BYOD and domain ownership is a better solution. That said, none of the registrars seem to be working towards end-user domain ownership. TakingNames.io is a cool project that works a little bit in this direction, they provide an OAuth-type flow to grant an application permission to update your DNS records on your behalf.
- pfraze 4y ago
  Domain-ownership is why we're including did:web as an option. That's the fully self-sufficient model. The did:plc method is a way to give people a solution if they don't own the domain.
- stoplying1 4y ago
  As someone who lost access to their domain for 2 days due to massive registrar incompetence (don't bargain bin shop for your cute tlds, folks)... No. Please god no.