Developed in the open

did:webplus was designed with, and reviewed by, the decentralized identity community. Here’s where the work happens and how to join it.

Implementation repo

Source, issues, and examples for the Rust reference implementation and all service components.
GitHub

Spec repo

The specification’s home: file issues, propose changes, follow the commit history.
GitHub

DIF Identifiers & Discovery WG

The open forum where early drafts of the method were presented for design review.
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DIF DID Methods WG

Where DID methods are evaluated for maturity and production-readiness, and where did:webplus earned its recommendation. LedgerDomain is a driving member.
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Talks and deep dives

Two deep-dive presentations at the DIF DID Methods Workgroup cover the method’s design in detail:

Deep Dive 1: recording · slides

Deep Dive 2: recording · slides

The people who made it better

Open review left fingerprints all over this method, and we like it that way. Spherity, fellow DIF member, provided extensive ergonomics and interoperability testing feedback in the OCI context. Juan Caballero edits the specification. Zkred built and published the first TypeScript implementation, conformance-testing it against the published examples. The DIF Identifiers & Discovery and DID Methods working groups reviewed the design from early drafts through the recommendation process. Design context came from across the community, including implementers’ handling of the under-documented versionTime behavior in the W3C DID ecosystem.

News

did:webplus is a DIF Recommended DID Method

June 19, 2026. Together with did:webvh, did:webplus is one of the first two methods to pass the DIF vetting process for Recommended DID Methods, announced jointly by DIF and Trust over IP, following deep-dive review sessions and a 60-day open review period.
Read the joint announcement

Case study: designing for a regulated messaging community

February 13, 2026. How the requirements of the US pharmaceutical supply chain, billions of regulated messages under government oversight, shaped did:webplus, and why requirements-driven DID design is a pattern worth copying.
Read the member post at DIF

First TypeScript implementation published on npm

July 7, 2026. Zkred released @zkred/did-webplus, a TypeScript implementation covering parsing, resolution (as a did-resolver plugin), VDG support, and controller operations, conformance-tested against the reference examples.
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The fastest way to contribute

Try the quickstart, and file an issue for anything that surprised you. Spec feedback, implementation reports, and comparison-page corrections are all welcome.

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