This is the repository of the W3C Credential Community Group's specification on DID-Linked Resources.
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Please find the formatted specification at this URL: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/DID-Linked-Resources/
This specification intends to create a standardized way of referencing, dereferencing and fetching digital resources (schemas, trust & status lists, visual representations of Verifiable Credentials, governance documents, logos). This includes associating digital resources with Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and organizing in DID-Linked Collections, where each individual resource is identifiable through its own DID URL.
This specification will extend the DID Resolution Specification, creating a set of query parameters for DID-Linked Resources, which are not method specific - including what is required and what is optional.
This specification aims to be built using existing, familiar DID Core Spec patterns:
- Support existing DID Resolvers and principles of DID URL dereferencing
- Protect against linkrot for long-term retrieval
- Enable resources to be versioned and organised, with individual versions being able to be fetched
- Include linkage between DID Documents and associated resources (via DID Document Metadata or otherwise).
- cheqd composition of DID-Linked Resources
- Trust over IP Draft Specification on DID-Linked Resources, to be superseded by the W3C work item
- did:cosmos Linked Resources
- DIF Decentralized Web Node Spec