Ok, well, I would bet that any consumer of your newfound protocol and its DID-but-not-that-DID system will still value knowing how yours differs from the AT protocol, and extra credit for whether their concepts are interoperable

So, while you may not have known at the time, it will be in your best interest to have an answer and it would be stellar to put said comparison in your GitHub repos to prevent every single person from "emailing you to collaborate"