Bryan Newbold highlights a critical compliance issue where AT-URIs in the AT Protocol violate IETF RFC-3986 standards due to placing DIDs in the URI authority section. This non-compliance hinders broader adoption in web contexts like HTML link tags and complicates efforts by the ATP Working Group to secure permanent IETF registration. The author argues that while fixing this requires significant developer disruption, resolving it is essential for preserving the protocol's core identity-centric design.
Background
The AT Protocol uses AT-URIs to identify content and accounts across decentralized networks, relying on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Standard web protocols and parsers expect URIs to conform strictly to RFC-3986, which defines specific structures for schemes, authorities, and paths.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jun 30, 2026 at 04:34 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10