Interview - Jonathan Rayback

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0:00 Hi, I'm Jonathan Reibach. My presentation was on DIDWebs and the connection between

0:05 KERI and the decentralized identifier ecosystem. Well, I think KERI offers some

0:12 unique qualities that really help DIDWebs be the strongest version of the DIDWeb

0:19 family of identifiers. Specifically, it allows for the controller to explicitly

0:27 authorize information like host information, path information. And it also

0:33 allows for much more convenience when dealing with very, very long-lived

0:38 identifiers like over the span of decades, a lifetime. I think those two advantages

0:44 are really strong for DIDWebs. I think if the work that we're doing on DIDWebs

0:48 disappeared tomorrow, it would be too bad. I think that there as long as there's a

0:58 decentralized identified identifier market and infrastructure out there, having a

1:04 bridge between that ecosystem and the KERI ecosystem makes a lot of sense. There are

1:09 going to be consumers of KERI information that want to get that via a DID document

1:16 because their infrastructure is set up that way. And I think if we lost DIDWebs,

1:21 KERI would lose a foothold in the interoperability space. That would be too

1:26 bad.!