Relationship between controller property and DID controller
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Issue #122 has a lot of back-and-forth about the relationship between the
controllerproperty and the actual DID controller, aka the entity that can edit the DID document.The original issue was about whether we can assume the DID subject (aka an entity that can authenticate itself with verification material contained in the DID doc.. I think?) is default controller in the absence of a
controllerproperty. (Short answer to that being 'no'.)I'm not sure there's consensus, so I've added a NOTE presenting one set of perspectives from that thread, which is basically that the
controllerproperty is indicative but ultimately who/what can or cannot edit a DID doc, and under what circumstances, is up to the DID method,controllerproperty or no.I'm not sure if there's normative language to be developed from this, happy to iterate.