DID Resolution defines how a decentralized identifier is resolved to its DID document, and how DID URLs are dereferenced, including the product-level references used for Digital Product Passports. It is a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
W3C DID Resolution
DID Resolution defines how a decentralized identifier is resolved to its DID document, and how DID URLs are dereferenced, including the product-level references used for Digital Product Passports. It is a W3C Candidate Recommendation.
Where it stands
As of 2026-10-13, the Agentic Standards Map records:
Candidate Recommendation Snapshot 2026-08-06; current Candidate Recommendation Draft 2026-10-01 (also 2026-08-28), which marks the Decentralized Identifier (DID) URL dereferencing feature and sections 5, 6, 8 and 10 as at risk. The exclusion opportunity on the Patent Review Draft ended on 2026-10-05. PR #344, “full pass at DID URL dereferencing algorithm (isolated)”, was merged into main on 2026-10-13 at 02:10 UTC (merge commit 0956c93). …
Why it matters to agents
The specification defines how a DID is resolved to a DID document and how DID URLs are dereferenced; the relativeRef parameter is used for product-level references such as Digital Product Passports (issue #332). …
Sources
- https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/did/ipr/
- https://github.com/w3c/did-resolution/pull/344#issuecomment-5998044656
- https://github.com/w3c/did-resolution/pull/344#pullrequestreview-5417251334
- https://www.w3.org/TR/did-resolution/
- https://www.w3.org/standards/history/did-resolution-1.0/
- https://github.com/w3c/did-resolution/pull/344
Status and relevance quoted, shortened, from the Agentic Standards Map by Francesco Marinoni Moretto, CC BY 4.0, https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/. The full entry, with every dated source, is in map.json under w3c-did-resolution.
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