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Signed-off-by: Shota Jolbordi <shota.jolbordi@iohk.io>
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### DID subject
The entity is identified by a [DID](#decentralized-identifer-(did)) and described by a [DID documents](#did-document). Anything can be a DID subject: person, group, organization, physical thing, digital thing, etc.

### DID Url
A DID itself is a type of a URL, while `did` is a registered schema type, like `http` and `https`. In identus system, we refer DID urls to a DID that includes path and query paramteres and can resolve a resource via one of the service endpoints in the DID document. for example:
```
did:prism:9f847f8bbb66c112f71d08ab39930d468ccbfe1e0e1d002be53d46c431212c26?resourceService=agent-base-url&resourcePath=schema-registry/schemas/did-url&resourceHash=4074bb1a8e0ea45437ad86763cd7e12de3fe8349ef19113df773b0d65c8a9c46
```

### Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
A distributed database or ledger establishes confidence for the participants to rely on the data recorded. Typically these databases use nodes and a consensus protocol to confirm the order of cryptographically signed transactions. Linking the transactions over time creates a historical ledger that is effectively immutable.

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### Protocol buffer
Also known as protobuf.

### Prism envelope
A response type for endpoints that implement prism anoncred method
```json
{"resource": <encoded resource as string>, url: <did url at which this resource can be resolved>}
```



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