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Canonical reading for the Open Agent Specification: the project whitepaper plus the upstream W3C DID standard that the method builds on.

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A closer lookAn open standard, in register.
OPENAGENTID / FIELD NOTES06OPEN AGENT SPECIFICATIONOPEN AGENT SPECIFICATIONOPEN AGENT SPECIFICATIONDID / LINEAGE / PROOFA COMMON FRAME OF REFERENCE

Identity, cryptography, lineage, and conformance become a common frame of reference.

  1. 01Lay out the clauses
  2. 02Align the primitives
  3. 03Connect the proof
  4. 04Read the whole standard
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These links are curated to avoid drift: the whitepaper for project rationale, and DID Core for the underlying standard model.

Open Agent Specification whitepaperDesign motivations and rationale for the identity model, conformance framing, and verifier expectations.Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0The W3C DID Core standard: DID syntax, DID document data model, and resolution concepts.
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