Sidetree did:ion + did:elem Roadmap + dev

Sidetree DID: ion+did:elem Roadmap & Dev

Thursday 15H

Convener: Orie Steele

Notes-taker(s): Guillaume Dardelet

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Sidetree, Element, Ion, Scaling, DID

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

In this session, we discussed the Sidetree protocol as a solution for scaling DIDs and the two main implementations:

- Element (which uses Ethereum as a ledger)

- Ion (which uses Bitcoin as a ledger)

The main points that were addressed were:

- How Sidetree batches DID operations

- How resolving a DID works

- Key differences between the Ethereum implementation and the Bitcoin implementation

Resources:

- https://did.ai/iiw29

- https://github.com/decentralized-identity/sidetree/blob/master/docs/protocol.md

- https://github.com/decentralized-identity/element

- https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion