Moving handles out of DID documents

[easrng]

Many DID methods keep a permanent log of revisions to a DID doc, and this can be undesirable for handles.¹ Could we store them on the PDS instead, perhaps in a com.atproto.handle/self record or something?

¹ some people change names and would not appreciate deadnames being readily available on protocol

[easrng]

relevant: github search for did -> handle lookup implementations

[WaveringAna]

handles should absolutely be something forgettable by the network

[Blooym]

Definitely in support of exploring this change. I don't know if it will really resolve the handle history problem, though, as there will definitely be some third party that scrapes did -> handle and stores it forever anyway (or just keeps a history from the firehose), but it's still totally worth exploring.

[LemmaEOF]

I think having name history require active effort to obtain and store rather than being served up easily is at least good enough to warrant implementing. Strongly in support!