Re: Network identity / brand

how about "user address"? it's like "what's your email address" except
that it makes more sense because it doesn't say 'email'. that's the
reason i started using that term about a year ago to say "the
user@host string you put into webfinger"

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/12 3:50 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
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>> 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.
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> People didn't like or understand http: scheme URIs as personal identifiers.
> They are counter intuitive.
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> 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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