Overview#

DID Subject (DID) is a Digital Identity and is a component of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers and is the identifier and the Subject that the DID Document is about

DID Subject rules are:

• A DID Document MUST have exactly one DID Subject
• The key for this property MUST be id.
• The value of this key MUST be a valid DID.
• When a DID Document is registered with the target Distributed Ledger Technology or network, the registered DID MUST match this DID Subject value.

DID Subject Example#

{
  "id": "did:example:21tDAKCERh95uGgKbJNHYp"
}

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• DID Document
• Decentralized Identifier
• W3C Decentralized Identifiers

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• [#1] - W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - based on information obtained 2018-11-29