This document serves as a collection of known DID Methods.
Comments regarding this document are welcome. Please file issues directly on GitHub, or send them to public-did-wg@w3.org ( subscribe, archives).
Portions of the work on this specification have been funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate under contracts HSHQDC-16-R00012-H-SB2016-1-002, 70RSAT20T00000010, and HSHQDC-17-C-00019. The content of this specification does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Government and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Work on this registry has also been supported by the Rebooting the Web of Trust community facilitated by Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline, Kiara Robles, Brian Weller, Betty Dhamers, Kaliya Young, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Manu Sporny, Drummond Reed, Joe Andrieu, and Heather Vescent, Dmitri Zagidulin, and Dan Burnett.
This document serves as a collection of known DID Methods.
The registration process is described in the [[[DID-EXTENSIONS]]].
This table summarizes the DID method specifications currently in development. The links will be updated as subsequent Implementer’s Drafts are produced. This registry does not act as an endorsement of any particular DID method or its underlying technologies by the W3C, the W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group, or any affiliated members of the W3C. It exists as a mechanism for developers to discover various DID methods that they might wish to implement.
The normative requirements for DID method specifications can be found in Decentralized Identifiers v1.0: Methods [[DID-CORE]]. DID methods that do not meet these requirements will not be accepted. We encourage DID method authors to provide an email address in the Author Links column, as this helps with maintenance. If an email address is omitted, a label noting that there is no contact information for the author will be applied to the registry entry.