DDS

Roadmap to DWebCamp: Building DDS in the Open

Nicolas Gimenez 2026-02-22

The DDS Working Group targets DWebCamp in July 2026 as its first public milestone. Here’s the roadmap.

Phase 1: Foundation (February — March)

  • Launch the website and publish the specification as a working draft.
  • Set up governance: community consensus, mutual agreement, vendor-neutral GitHub organization owned by individuals.
  • Onboard early maintainers and contributors.

This phase is underway.

Phase 2: Exploration (March — May)

Proof-of-concept implementations built on AT Protocol. Three focus areas:

Deliberation lifecycle lexicon. Formalize the Plan, Collect, Analyze loop into concrete AT Protocol lexicon definitions. Test the full cycle end-to-end.

Guest and non-standard login. “Soft” login via ephemeral did:key for guests, “hard” login via persistent did:plc for committed participants, merge paths between the two. Zero-knowledge-based authentication for anonymous participation.

Privacy models. Loosely private conversations shared via links among invited participants.

Each PoC validates a design direction — not a commitment.

Phase 3: Convergence (May — July)

  • Consolidate PoC learnings into spec revisions.
  • Build working demonstrations.
  • Prepare a public presentation for DWebCamp.

Beyond July

Not the immediate focus, but part of the broader vision:

  • Verifiable analysis via zero-knowledge machine learning (zkML).
  • On-chain verification on Ethereum.
  • Archival strategies for long-term data preservation.
  • Vouching-based verification graphs for participant trust networks.

Get Involved

The specification is a working draft — feedback is welcome. Development happens on GitHub. If you’re headed to DWebCamp in July, that’s where DDS makes its first public appearance.