A non-reciprocal relationship rooted in the Identity of one party, where the other party is the public (a faceless βotherβ that can be instantiated without bound). For an Organization to issue publicly Verifiable Credentials, its Issuer DID must be on a public ledger such as cheqd. It is thus an Anywise DIDβa DID to which any other Entity may refer without coordination. The term βpublic DIDβ is sometimes used as a casual synonym for βAnywise DIDβ. However, βpublic DIDβ is deprecated because it is ambiguous, i.e., it may refer to a DID that is world-visible but usable only in pairwise mode, or to a DID that is not published in a central location but nonetheless used in many contexts, or to a DID that is both publicly visible and used in Anywise mode. Compare N-wise and Pairwise.