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 intended audience includes individuals or entities seeking to improve service
 interoperability with their existing services or on new services.
 
+### Problem Statement
+
+Current endpoint systems lack a clear method to identify the protocols a service
+supports. The DID Core Spec’s Service Endpoint type field is not sufficiently
+expressive for endpoints to fully understand what protocols a service endpoint
+supports. This specification addresses this gap in the DID Core specification by
+introducing a straightforward way for endpoints to indicate support of a
+protocol or service using a structured Profile Document Model. These documents
+are reusable, decentralized, and expressive documents that allow service
+providers to connect and interoperate with endpoint systems with less friction.
+
 ### Example
 
 In this example, we illustrate a practical example of profiles. We have a