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True standards compliance enabling cross-vendor interoperability is the core value proposition of decentralized identity; a proprietary variant that locks the customer into one vendor's ecosystem undermines the whole premise.
This is still an emerging category; insist on a real production reference, not a pilot or proof-of-concept, since the gap between demo and production maturity is often large in this space.
Look for a concrete revocation mechanism and propagation-latency figure; some early decentralized-identity architectures struggled with practical, timely revocation, which is a real functional gap if unaddressed.
Pure self-custody with no recovery path risks permanent lockout on device loss — a real usability concern; ask specifically how the vendor balances self-sovereignty against practical recoverability.
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Incremental integration alongside existing IAM is a much more realistic adoption path than requiring a full replacement; ask for a specific integration pattern, not a hand-wave toward 'it integrates.'
This category covers very different use cases with different maturity levels; ask for the vendor's specific target use case and concrete adoption evidence there, not general category-level claims.
Selective disclosure is a key differentiator of decentralized identity over traditional credential sharing; a platform that only supports all-or-nothing credential disclosure loses much of the privacy benefit the category promises.
A credible vendor in this still-maturing category should give an honest, specific readiness assessment rather than uniformly overselling production-readiness across every use case and geography.
Look for transparent, predictable scaling economics from pilot to real production volume, given how early-stage this market remains — a vendor should have a specific answer, not just a pilot-scale price.
Ask for a real, tested incident-response process — given how early-stage production deployments are in this space, press for whether this has actually been exercised, not just designed theoretically.
eIDAS 2.0 and similar regional frameworks are concrete, checkable regulatory targets — ask for a specific compliance mapping rather than a general 'privacy-respecting' claim.
Given the market's early stage, press specifically for production-scale (not pilot/demo) performance data — a vendor unable to provide this may not have real production deployments at meaningful scale yet.
Standards-compliance on paper doesn't guarantee real-world interoperability — ask for a concrete, tested cross-vendor example, since credential portability is the whole point of the decentralized-identity model.
This is the central promise-versus-reality question for decentralized identity — ask for a concrete answer on real portability, not just a theoretical assertion based on standards-compliance.
Given the early state of this market, developer-tooling maturity varies significantly between vendors — ask for concrete evidence (real SDK repos, documentation currency, support responsiveness) rather than a general 'developer-friendly' claim.
This category still has a real gap between marketing positioning and genuine production adoption — press specifically for whether the cited references are production deployments or still pilots, given the vendor's own honest self-assessment matters here.