Decentralized Persistent Identifiers: a basic model for immutable handlers

Persistent Identifier (PID) systems have evolved in the last decade to mitigate the problem of link rot and provide unique and resolvable identifiers for digital objects, becoming a key element in archival services. However, they still depend on centralized services which may either become unavailable or cease to behave or be managed as expected. Decentralized technologies may serve as the infrastructure for the design of a trustless PID system...