Tyron DID Document

For an introduction, read this.

A DID Document is a graph-based data structure, a collection of property-value pairs, serialized according to a particular syntax.

The Tyron DID Document's serialization format is JSON:

• It defines an unambiguous encoding and decoding of all properties and their associated values
• It MUST be a single JSON object conforming to RFC8259, The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
• The names of the members of the JSON object MUST correspond to the core property names of the DID Document
• Property values MUST be:
  - Numbers for number values representable as IEEE754
  - Literal values for boolean ('false', 'true') and empty values ('null')
  - Arrays for sequence values and unordered sets of values
  - Objects for sets of properties
  - Strings for all other values. Consumers MAY further parse these strings into more specific data types such as URIs and date stamps
• The contentType property in the resolver's metadata MUST be application/did+json:
  - Which is the associated IANA-registered MIME type, with its corresponding rules to process the fragment
  - Producers MUST write this type in the document's metadata, and consumers MUST validate it as well
• Consumers MUST ignore unknown object member names as unknown properties

Core properties

1. id

The id value MUST be a single valid Tyron DID itself, e.g.:

{
  "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9"
}

A W3C DID Document MUST include the id property, which denotes the DID-Subject.

2. publicKey

The publicKey property is the main verification method.

The publicKey value MUST be an array of objects of type VerificationMethodModel, e.g.:

{
  "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9",
  "publicKey": [
    {
      "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#keyID-1",
      "type": "SchnorrSecp256k1VerificationKey2019",
      "publicKeyBase58": "sPKxpZouU4wtdYsTN6a9nJtkfEYPPebSGVsz9ZWJPU3N"
    },
    {
      "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#keyID-2",
      "type": "SchnorrSecp256k1VerificationKey2019",
      "publicKeyBase58": "tfJRkK8kEu8YFML8bwpkZwzo8YXDFhfFuryfGQAtw4jg"
    }
  ]
}

All verification methods MUST have the following properties:

• id: Its value MUST be a unique Tyron DID-URL. There MUST NOT be multiple verification method objects with the same id-value - otherwise the consumer MUST produce an error
• type: Its value MUST be exactly one verification method type. The Tyron default type is currently SchnorrSecp256k1VerificationKey2019
• publicKeyBase58: the secp256k1 public key value encoded as a raw 32-byte string in Base58 Bitcoin format

Before processing them into the DID Document, each verification method has a property called purpose. It states the functionality of the key, its verification relationship. For public keys, the purpose value MUST be an array of PublicKeyPurpose variants.

3. authentication

When the key purpose is PublicKeyPurpose.Auth = 'auth'.

The authentication value MUST be an array of verification methods. Each verification method MAY be embedded or referenced, e.g.:

{
  "authentication": [
    // referenced key:
    "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#generalKeyID",

    // embedded key:
    {
      "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#onlyAuthKey",
      "type": "SchnorrSecp256k1VerificationKey2019",
      "publicKeyBase58": "jcJRkK8kEu8YFML8bwpkZwzo8YXDFhfFuryfGQAtw4cd"
    }
  ]
}

4. service

Tyron service endpoints allow communication with the DID-Subject, from privacy-preserving messaging services to cryptocurrency addresses.

The service value MUST be an array of objects of type DidServiceEndpointModel, e.g.:

{
  "service": [
    {
      "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#did-method",
      "type": "website",
      "endpoint": "https://www.ssiprotocol.com"
    },
    {
      "id": "did:tyron:zil:test:0x5a156a1d18a9a76a0a86b62fcdcb2e547173f3c9#account-X",
      "type": "zil-address",
      "endpoint": "zil1egvj6ketfydy48uqzu8qphhj5w4xrkratv85ht"
    }
  ]
}

All services MUST have the following properties:

• id: Its value MUST be a unique Tyron DID-URL with a length no more than fifty (50) ASCII encoded characters. There MUST NOT be multiple keys with the same id-value - otherwise the consumer MUST produce an error
• type: Its value MUST be a string with a length of no more than thirty (30) ASCII encoded characters
• endpoint: Its value MUST be a valid URI string (including a scheme segment, i.e. 'https://', 'git://'), with a length of no more than one hundred (100) ASCII encoded characters OR a Zilliqa address

If any of the values exceed the specified lengths, the consumer MUST produce an error.