[capableweb]

What are these people smoking? DID has nothing to do with PoW, it's merely one of the methods you could use to timestamp when a signature was made. There are plenty of other ways (centralized too, since that's probably what Microsoft and Google care about) to do this, so not sure why sustainability is being brought up as a counter-point to the DID specification.

[detaro]

As someone who has attempted to follow a few events in this space, there was massive presence of PoW blockchain advocates, underlying assumption that everything is blockchain, ... and it very much felt as if other things were very much an afterthought (EDIT: and sadly such afterthoughts in theory being in the spec but useless/not really wanted is not entirely uncommon in specs). If that was a common impression others got, don't be surprised by the reaction.

[capableweb]

As another person who've followed DID closely, where is the "underlying assumption that everything is blockchain" part coming from? The specification has one mention of "blockchain" and many parts of the specification leaves the storage part free for implementors to decide freely how it works.

[PretzelPirate]

Daniel from Microsoft’s Identity team has been driving the Microsoft DID effort for years and has been pushing Bitcoin as the storage layer for that entire time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/csuwildcat

[capableweb]

Daniel can fight for whatever storage mechanism he wants, it's not defined how the DID should be stored in the specification so people are free to store them however they want.

Then some group comes along and uses sustainability as signal against DIDs, when DID has nothing to do with Bitcoin or blockchain? Feels like the motivation for this "response" comes from somewhere else than "please think of the planet".