[Communitivity]

It is much easier to destroy than to create.

The attack on DIDs is the same pattern of attack on Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRIs), one of the standardization attempts along the path to DIDs. Politics and soundbytes popular at the time are used to garner a boost in public opinion, or to defeat something that may threaten the status quo, or to just defeat the efforts of someone disliked by a group (some of the same people in DIDs were in the XRI effort).

DIDs may not be the best technology to solve decentralized identity, but it is the best technology we have right now. ENS is great, but completely tied into Ethereum.

I am horribly disappointed in Mozilla in general, and Tantek in particular. For me this is the last signpost on Mozilla's road from being a bastion for Open Source to being a JACM (Just Another Corporate Monolith).

Why the big-name detractors coming out the woodwork now for the review did not take part in the DID standardization effort is unclear to me. They could have influenced its growth and helped it mature into something they could live with - proper pre-natal care for standards and by those involved with Standard Development Orgs.

Instead they have sent corporate hatchetmen to abort DIDs stillborn at birth.

[AtlasBarfed]

I'm not going to give bigcorps a pass, but the thing with specs is that it is hard to criticize it until the spec is, you know, published in many cases, especially if you aren't in the committee.