Another way to think about it might be to adopt a symbol that explicitly represents a namespace outside the DNS system? Could !username mean, look my identity up on Telehash? So the discovery protocol may be something like: IF identifier starts with '!' lookup on Telehash ELSE IF identifier has the form user@domain lookup using WebFinger and fall back to Telehash ELSE IF identifier starts with '@' lookup on Twitter identity service fallback to medium.com identity service ELSE IF identifier starts with '$' lookup on cash.me identity service ELSE return not found The last two are not realistic for a global standard but I'm sure Twitter, Medium and Square would like them On 26 March 2015 at 16:19, Andy McKay <amckay@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com> > wrote: > > It does make me think that an identifier like adrian$hopebailie.com could > be a cool standard though and would imply that my IdP is at hopebailie.com > and my identity key is "adrian”. > > > adrian£hopebailie.com is way cooler. A currency symbol that applies to > only a few countries isn’t going to work. >
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