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Acknowledgements

The specification authors would like to thank the contributors to the -W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0, -W3C Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0, and -W3C Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE specifications -upon which this work is based. + +W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 specification upon which this work +is based. +

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+The Working Group gratefully acknowledges the work that led to the creation of +this specification, and extends sincere appreciation to those individuals that +worked on technologies and specifications that deeply influenced our work. In +particular, this includes the work of Phil Zimmerman, Jon Callas, Lutz +Donnerhacke, Hal Finney, David Shaw, and Rodney Thayer on Pretty Good Privacy +(PGP) in the 1990s and 2000s. +

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+In the mid-2010s, preliminary implementations of what would become Decentralized +Identifiers were +built in collaboration with Jeremie Miller's Telehash project and the W3C +Web Payments Community Group's work led by Dave Longley and Manu Sporny. Around +a year later, the XDI.org Registry Working Group + +began exploring decentralized technologies for replacing its existing +identifier registry. Some of the first +written +papers +exploring the concept of Decentralized Identifiers can be traced back to the +first several Rebooting the Web of Trust workshops convened by Christopher +Allen. That work led to a key collaboration between Christopher Allen, Drummond +Reed, Les Chasen, Manu Sporny, and Anil John. Anil saw promise in the technology +and allocated the initial set of government funding to explore the space. +Without the support of Anil John and his guidance through the years, it is +unlikely that Decentralized Identifiers would be where they are today. Further +refinement at the Rebooting the Web of Trust workshops led to the first +implementers documentation, edited by Drummond Reed, Les Chasen, Christopher +Allen, and Ryan Grant. Contributors included Manu Sporny, Dave Longley, Jason +Law, Daniel Hardman, Markus Sabadello, Christian Lundkvist, and Jonathan +Endersby. This initial work was then merged into the W3C Credentials Community +Group, incubated further, and then transitioned to the W3C Decentralized +Identifiers Working Group for global standardization. That work was then used +as the basis for this, more generalized and less decentralized, specification. +

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+Portions of the work on this specification have been funded by the United States +Department of Homeland Security's (US DHS) Science and Technology Directorate +under contracts HSHQDC-16-R00012-H-SB2016-1-002, and HSHQDC-17-C-00019, as well +as the US DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program under contracts +70RSAT20T00000003, 70RSAT20T00000010/P00001, 70RSAT20T00000029, +70RSAT20T00000030, 70RSAT20T00000033, 70RSAT20T00000045, +70RSAT21T00000016/P00001, 70RSAT23T00000005, 70RSAT23C00000030, and +70RSAT23R00000006. The content of this specification does not necessarily +reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Government and no official +endorsement should be inferred. +

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+Portions of the work on this specification have also been funded by the European +Union's StandICT.eu program under sub-grantee contract number CALL05/19. The +content of this specification does not necessarily reflect the position or the +policy of the European Union and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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Acknowledgements

Bitcoin Core developers who wrote the original code, shared under an MIT License, found in Section [[[#base-encode]]] and Section [[[#base-decode]]].

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+Work on this specification has also been supported by the +Rebooting the Web of Trust community +facilitated by Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline, Kiara Robles, Brian +Weller, Betty Dhamers, Kaliya Young, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Manu Sporny, Drummond +Reed, Joe Andrieu, Heather Vescent, Samantha Chase, Andrew Hughes, Erica +Connell, Shigeya Suzuki, and Zaïda Rivai. Development of this specification has +also been supported by the +W3C Credentials Community Group, which +has been Chaired by Kim Hamilton Duffy, Joe Andrieu, Christopher Allen, Heather +Vescent, and Wayne Chang. The participants in the Internet Identity Workshop, +facilitated by Phil Windley, Kaliya Young, Doc Searls, and Heidi Nobantu Saul, +also supported this work through numerous working sessions designed to debate, +improve, and educate participants about this specification. +

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+The Working Group thanks the following individuals for their contributions to +this specification (in alphabetical order, Github handles start with `@` and +are sorted as last names): Denis Ah-Kang, Nacho Alamillo, Christopher Allen, Joe +Andrieu, Antonio, Phil Archer, George Aristy, Baha, Juan Benet, BigBlueHat, Dan +Bolser, Chris Boscolo, Pelle Braendgaard, Daniel Buchner, Daniel Burnett, Juan +Caballero, @cabo, Tim Cappalli, Melvin Carvalho, David Chadwick, Wayne Chang, +Sam Curren, Hai Dang, Tim Daubenschütz, Oskar van Deventer, Kim Hamilton Duffy, +Arnaud Durand, Ken Ebert, Veikko Eeva, @ewagner70, Carson Farmer, Nikos Fotiou, +Gabe, Gayan, @gimly-jack, @gjgd, Ryan Grant, Peter Grassberger, Adrian Gropper, +Amy Guy, Daniel Hardman, Kyle Den Hartog, Philippe Le Hegaret, Ivan Herman, +Michael Herman, Alen Horvat, Dave Huseby, Marcel Jackisch, Mike Jones, Andrew +Jones, Tom Jones, jonnycrunch, Gregg Kellogg, Michael Klein, @kdenhartog-sybil1, +Paul Knowles, @ktobich, David I. Lehn, Charles E. Lehner, Michael Lodder, +@mooreT1881, Dave Longley, Tobias Looker, Wolf McNally, Robert Mitwicki, Mircea +Nistor, Grant Noble, Mark Nottingham, @oare, Darrell O'Donnell, Vinod Panicker, +Dirk Porsche, Praveen, Mike Prorock, @pukkamustard, Drummond Reed, Julian +Reschke, Yancy Ribbens, Justin Richer, Rieks, @rknobloch, Mikeal Rogers, +Evstifeev Roman, Troy Ronda, Leonard Rosenthol, Michael Ruminer, Markus +Sabadello, Cihan Saglam, Samu, Rob Sanderson, Wendy Seltzer, Mehran Shakeri, +Jaehoon (Ace) Shim, Samuel Smith, James M Snell, SondreB, Manu Sporny, @ssstolk, +Orie Steele, Shigeya Suzuki, Sammotic Switchyarn, @tahpot, Oliver Terbu, Ted +Thibodeau Jr., Joel Thorstensson, Tralcan, Henry Tsai, Rod Vagg, Mike Varley, +Kaliya "Identity Woman" Young, Eric Welton, Fuqiao Xue, @Yue, Dmitri Zagidulin, +@zhanb, and Brent Zundel. +

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