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Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

A DID is an identifier whose document, including keys, can be resolved by a method. The method says where the document lives. The standard does not pick one blockchain.

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Authors: W3C
Date: 2022
Publisher: W3C
Version: Source cited by the 2022 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0191
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A DID is an identifier whose document, including keys, can be resolved by a method. The method says where the document lives. The standard does not pick one blockchain.

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Author–date

W3C (2022). Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0. W3C. https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

BibTeX

@techreport{w3cdid2022,
  title = {Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0},
  author = {W3C},
  year = {2022},
  institution = {W3C},
  url = {https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/w3c-did}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0
AU  - W3C
PY  - 2022
PB  - W3C
UR  - https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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    "publisher": "W3C",
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    "note": "Rights status: Official external source only. Not a licence to republish the paper."
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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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