Agent Identity & Trust
DID
Decentralized Identifiers
Formal standard
Global
W3C
Since 2022
Globally unique identifiers that resolve to a document describing how to authenticate the subject, without depending on a central registry.
The reason it appears on a compliance map: European data spaces and agent ecosystems both need a party to prove who it is across organisational boundaries, and a DID is the identifier those trust frameworks are built on.
At a glance
- Category
- Agent Identity & Trust
- Jurisdiction
- Global
- Governance
- W3C
- Status
- DID Core 1.0 W3C Recommendation (2022)
- First released
- 2022
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Agent Identity & Trust.
- Verifiable Credentials: Verifiable Credentials Data Model
See DID in context
Open the interactive Data Landscape for Regulation to compare DID against every other framework, or grab the raw JSON. Certification schemes and editions move — follow the source links before relying on this page.