Don't forget the Korean Ministry of the Interior, who are apparently using a two-line Markdown file as their website and a random Gmail address as their only method of contact.
For an identity verification standard, you'd think they'd demand the authors have more verifiable identities.
I understand that the list presented there is more-so early stage proposals; its not like they've been registered to manage that DID method.
That being said; it speaks some amount to the professionalism of the authors and supporters of this spec. The sane people ask: what are the real, tangible use-cases? There's no answer. Ok, well short of that: are there are least real, tangible organizations who will be building on top of this?
Not only is the answer weak, but the meeting notes from the DID-WG indicate a high level aversion to any known, named authority participating in a significant capacity [1]. They were rather concerned about Mastercard's proposed "id" DID method, for privacy/centralization reasons, maybe those are valid but...
> Markus Sabadello: … Even if we don’t apply it, since in the past we haven’t, even then I think this registration should not be accepted as-is, because it’s incomplete..
> Manu Sporny: Just about every DID Method is incomplete… not a good criteria..
It really comes off as a bunch of people who are mad at the centralization of big tech, want to change it, but lack focus & expertise on how to implement that change. And they managed to drag W3C/TBL down to their level.
For an identity verification standard, you'd think they'd demand the authors have more verifiable identities.