did:cow, a proposal for an ID resolution method with most of the convenience of did:plc/did:web and the robustness of a public blockchain
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1. Create the DID you will wrap.
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2. Choose your initial controller address.
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3. Form the did:cow identifier by inserting `cow:<initial_controller_address>:` after the initial `did:`, and dropping the `did:` prefix from the wrapped DID.
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3. Form the did:cow identifier by inserting `cow:<initial_controller_address>:` after the initial `did:`.
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### 6.2 Read (Resolution)
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1. Call `resolveCow(initial_controller_address, initial_wrapped_did)` against the registry contract.
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The did:cow registry contract performs the following steps:
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The did:cow registry contract performs the following steps:
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- If no on-chain record exists, resolve the wrapped DID from the identifier directly.
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- If an on-chain record exists, prepend `did:` to the returned wrapped DID value and resolve that.
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- If the record exists but has been deactivated, return deactivated status.
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- If no on-chain record exists, resolve the wrapped DID from the identifier directly.
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- If an on-chain record exists, prepend `did:` to the returned wrapped DID value and resolve that.
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- If the record exists but has been deactivated, return deactivated status.
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2. Resolve the wrapped DID as per that DID system's resolution method.
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