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W3C DID Working Group - legacy homepage
This is the old homepage of the DID Working Group.
It is not maintained anymore.
The new homepage lives at https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/did/.
DID Working Group
Publication status and milestones of the Working Group documents
Latest versions of documents
| Document | Latest official release | Editors’ Draft | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| DID Identifiers v1.0 | did-core | ed | github rep |
| DID Use Cases and Requirements† | did-use-cases | ed | github rep |
| DID Specification Registries† | did-use-cases | ed | github rep |
| The Plain CBOR Representation v1.0† | did-cbor-representation | ed | github rep |
| Decentralized Characteristics Rubric V1.0† | did-rubric | ed | github rep |
| DID Implementation Guide v1.0† | did-imp-guide | ed | github rep |
†Non rec-track document
The Editors’ drafts are managed in GitHub repositories; the list of those repositories is available on the GitHub index page.
Major planned milestones (from the charter)
- DID Identifiers v1.0:
- First Public Working Draft (FPWD): November 2019 (✓)
- Candidate Recommendation (CR): March 2021 (✓)
- Proposed Recommendation (PR): August 2021 (✓)
- Recommendation (REC): September 2021. (✓)
- Decentralized Identifier (DID) Resolution and DID URL Dereferencing v1.0
- First Public Working Draft (FPWD)
- Candidate Recommendation (CR)
- Proposed Recommendation (PR)
- Recommendation (REC): April 2026.
- Decentralized Identifier Use Cases & Requirements (Note):
- First Public Working Draft (FPWD): November 2019 (✓)
- Note: March 2021 (✓).
- DID Specification Registries (Note):
- First Public Working Draft (FPWD): June 2020 (✓)
- Note: August 2021. (✓)
- Decentralized Characteristics Rubric (Note):
- First Public Working Draft (FPWD): August 2021 (✓)
- Note: August 2021. (✓)