Re: Network identity / brand

On 7/7/12 3:50 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> I'm a bit worried, if we tell people their identifier is user@host or 
> host/path/to/file or even worse an onion address, they might just yawn.
> It didn't work with OpenID, people didn't want URIs as personal 
> identifiers.

People didn't like or understand http: scheme URIs as personal 
identifiers. They are counter intuitive.

Eventually, folks will settle on @<nickname> . Each personal data space 
will know how to transform that into the URI scheme it supports. If we 
get over acct: vs http: the it will just work smoothly :-)

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Received on Sunday, 8 July 2012 15:01:52 UTC