Export terms from DID Core

[ottomorac]

In order to address w3c/did-resolution#232 we will first need to export out some terms from DID Core as well as add some aliases for some of the terms. After this PR is merged, the changes in DID resolution to remove duplicate terms can be done.

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[wip-abramson]

Why has this changed to "did service endpoint"?

[ottomorac]

Thanks Will. As mentioned in the call, "service endpoint" is too generic and might conflict with other specs. One suggestion would be "did service endpoint", whilst still keeping a local alias within the spec for "service endpoint".

[w3cbot]

This was discussed during the #did meeting on 11 December 2025.

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w3c/did#913

otto: This PR is attempting to solve issue about duplicate terms between DID Core and DID Resolution, before we do the PR for DID Resolution, we need to export some terms from DID Core to make it possible to refer to them in DID Resolution. Proposed terms, most of them use DID prefix so they won't conflict, but there are some (resources/services that could work w/ local alias) . Just trying to export terms, once this PR is merged, there will be another PR

for DID Resolution.

Wip: Service endpoint is too generic?

otto: Could avoid conflits by using DID Service Endpoint.

manu: there is a way to deconflict the terms when using them (specify which spec they come from)
… we are contemplating reusing "serviceEndpoint" in CID

<Zakim> JoeAndrieu, you wanted to mention CIDs

manu: so I would not make it specific to DIDs.
… But this looks like a good PR, I will review it.

JoeAndrieu: We should also look at CID spec and see what we need to synchronize there -- service endpoint might not be owned by DID. We can't change CID spec. We should figure out impact.

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