Can we avoid term definition duplication across DID specs?

[wip-abramson]

It would be ideal if this didn't duplicate definitions from other specs like https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.1/#terminology. But I think there are technical reasons you have trouble deduplicating, perhaps that webref can't distinguish DID-ish terms from web platform terms well enough.

[msporny]

We should do the following:

• Use xref and refer to did-core: https://respec.org/docs/#xref
• Delete all duplicated terms in the Terminology section of DID Resolution

[w3cbot]

This was discussed during the #did meeting on 11 November 2025.

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w3c/did-resolution#232

wip: can we avoid term difinition duplication across DID specs - we can just point to DID core terminology

Wip: if we can to this easily

error that was manu talking

manu: yes we can to this easily

wip: to address this we need to clean up all the terms duplicated -

manu: its very easy to do...explained how

manu: will share link to how to do.

Wip: goal is to cover all the issues today and discuss them.

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[w3cbot]

This was discussed during the #did meeting on 04 December 2025.

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w3c/did-resolution#232

<ottomorac1> Can we avoid term definition duplication across DID specs? #232

ottomorac1: we have some guidance from manu, now we need a willing participant to implement the changes
… I could try this on
… I may require some help, but I can make an initial proposal.

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