Revalidated public source record

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

Source scope

Technical standard relevant to identifier control and verification methods; it does not by itself establish legal identity.

Publisher, edition, and currentness

Source identity and K03 revalidation
PublisherW3C
Claim statusCURRENT TECHNICAL STANDARD
Version or editionDID Core v1.0
Publication statusW3C Recommendation
Publication date2022-07-19
Official locationhttps://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
K03 revalidated2026-08-14T22:04:09Z
Currentness assessmentLatest published DID Core Recommendation located at revalidation.
Superseded byNo successor is assigned in the current source catalog.

Claim-level support

Each row records the precise proposition this corpus draws from an official section. The citation does not authorize broader conclusions than the stated proposition.

Exact sections and supported propositions
SectionProposition supported in this corpusOfficial location
Verification methodsA DID document can express verification methods associated with a DID subject.Official section
ServicesA DID document can advertise service endpoints; that does not itself establish legal identity or authority.Official section

How this source may be used

  • Confirm that the official edition, jurisdiction, and status remain current before high-stakes reliance.
  • Cite the exact section supporting the proposition rather than the publication title alone.
  • Keep technical conformance separate from factual truth, legal authority, moral status, and institutional operation.
  • Record retrieval, correction, supersession, and purpose qualification.

Limitations

An official source can still be irrelevant, incomplete, stale, disputed, or unsuitable for a named decision. A standard can define an interchange or security mechanism without resolving personhood, citizenship, sovereignty, consciousness, consent, legal competence, or factual truth. A statute can regulate systems without recognizing Machine Intelligence as a legal person.

Latest published DID Core Recommendation located at revalidation.

Corrections, contradictions, and supersession

  • No source-specific correction, contradiction, or supersession record is active.

Where this source is used

Authority boundary

Publication by W3C establishes source provenance and official status within the publisher’s scope. It does not transfer governance, registry, assurance, or legal authority to ᚲ.com. The source remains external; this page is a knowledge record and revalidation log.

Exact source-section claims

Each proposition has a stable ID, status, scope, owning route, evidence relationship, currentness qualification, correction state, and synchronized JSON record. Record completeness does not make the proposition true.

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 — Verification methods

A DID document can express verification methods associated with a DID subject.

Qualification: Official publication and exact-section support do not transfer authority beyond the source's scope or prove every external fact.

Support relationship

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 — Services

A DID document can advertise service endpoints; that does not itself establish legal identity or authority.

Qualification: Official publication and exact-section support do not transfer authority beyond the source's scope or prove every external fact.

Support relationship

  • SRC-W3C-DID-CORE · Services · DIRECT SOURCE-SECTION SUPPORT