Decentralized Resource Identifier

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A Decentralize Resource Identifier is variant of a Digital object identifier (DOI) that always points to a single object that can always be resolved and recovered.

Idea articulated by Robert Mitwicki of Dativa at the Semantics Working Group of Hyperledger INDY on 2019-04-16.
This concept was filtered through the needs of the US Trustworthy Healthcare Ecosystem of the Kantara FIRE working group requirements for a medical records locator.

Nothing lasts forever.
It is important to recover documents in an unchanged format, perhaps many years after the document is created.
The only commonly agreed type of guarantee that a document has not changed is a hash of the content, but even that requires that we know the hashing algorithm.
The proposal that a hash of the document be placed on a blockchain makes the assumption that the blockchain will itself survive all the turmoil that is certain in the coming years. Not a good bet.

Build an identifier that will always refers to the document based on its content, rather than the location where it is stored at any point in time.
Assure some method that the validity of the document can be verified over time.

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