Decentralized identifiers for peer-to-peer service discovery

While data storage on the decentralized web has received a great deal of attention in research and practice, web services have remained relatively underutilized in peer-to-peer networks. This work-in-progress paper outlines the preliminary design of a decentralized, peer-to-peer service discovery system. In this system, peers can provide and request services, opening the door to a new “market of services” where providers and brokers can compete on metrics like price and uptime. Specifically, this report focuses on leveraging decentralized identifiers (DID) as a mechanism to discover these services.