[coderintherye]

Imagine you run a community college and want to identify students, but wish to do so in a privacy-preserving manner. Keep in mind you need to identify them from the high schools or other colleges they are transferring from as well as you'll need to identify them to the colleges they transfer to after.

DIDs allow for creating network wide identifiers that can be digitally verified. They work great in conjunction with verifiable credentials. So now you can keep and share records on students using their DID. You can create a unique DID for each student, even a unique id for each record which maps back to the student's DID.

It may not seem like much, but it forms the basis for creating systems where identity can be kept private, even from the individuals administering the system.