Requirements for DID Method Standardization

In order to determine which DID Methods to focus on incubating in 2025, we'll need some sort of selection criteria that has the broadest consensus within the community. This issue is being raised to do some data collection around what that selection criteria should be; that is -- what requirements are important to you when selecting a DID Method that is to become a global standard?

Once we have a list of requirements, we can do a ranked choice poll on all the criteria to see what the community feels is most important to least important. We might have to separate the criteria by DID Method type (ephemeral, web-based, decentralized) because each might have slightly different requirements.

So, what requirements are important to include in this upcoming ranked choice poll among the various communities involved in this work?

Review the issue body and its 16-comment discussion to understand the proposed criteria and any unresolved viewpoints. The work is complete when the community has an agreed list of DID Method selection requirements and a ranked-choice poll can be defined from it, potentially separated by method type.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.