Decentralized identifier (DID)
ID did
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Identifier defined by the W3C Recommendation Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (2022). It has the form did:<method>:<method-specific-id>. The method name is lowercase letters and digits, such as web, key or plc, and the method decides how the identifier resolves to a DID document with keys and service endpoints. The method-specific part uses letters, digits, period, hyphen, underscore, percent-encoded bytes and colons, and does not end with a colon. A DID followed by a path, query or fragment is a DID URL, which the regexp does not accept. Bluesky and the AT Protocol identify accounts with did:plc and did:web DIDs.
- Parent datatype
- Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
uri - Categories
- Universal unique identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Bioregistry
did- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^did:[a-z0-9]+:(?:(?:[A-Za-z0-9._-]|%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})*:)*(?:[A-Za-z0-9._-]|%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})+$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| did:example:123456789abcdefghi | Example 1 of the W3C DID specification |
| did:web:w3c-ccg.github.io | did:web method specification |
| did:web:example.com%3A3000:user:alice | did:web with an encoded port and a path, did:web method specification |
| did:Example:123456789abcdefghi invalid | Uppercase letter in the method name |
| did:example:123456/path invalid | DID URL with a path |
| did:example: invalid | Empty method-specific identifier |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Децентрализованный идентификатор (DID) |
Sources
- doc: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95350968
- doc: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-web/
- doc: https://atproto.com/specs/did
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/did - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/identifiers/did.yamlon GitHub