Have you heard of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)? They’re a work-in-progress W3C recommendation that I’ve seen pop up in a couple places - mostly recently in the just-updated Thoughtworks Technology Radar. Since I’ve been interested in technologies related to identity and access management, I thought I should take a look. Why do you need identifiers? When you want to refer to a subject, for example a person, in a data processing system, you need an identifier for them. If you’re ope...
