w3c decides "the internet" needs a new blockchain identification system.

Oh, you thought the w3c wanted just one blockchain based standard for you to follow now?

"The DID architectural approach appears to encourage divergence rather than convergence & interoperability," wrote Tantek Çelik, web standards lead at Mozilla, in a mailing list post last year. "The presence of 50+ entries in the registry, without any actual interoperability, seems to imply that there are greater incentives to introduce a new method, than to attempt to interoperate with any one of a number of growing existing methods."

Mozilla significantly undercounted. There are currently 135 entities listed by the W3C's DID Working Group, up from 105 in June 2021 and 86 in February 2021 as the spec was being developed. If significant interest develops in creating DID methods, the W3C – which this week said it is pursuing public-interest non-profit status – may find itself unprepared to oversee things."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/w3c_overrules_objections/