- From: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:24:06 +0300
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-fedsocweb@w3.org
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: >> >> 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 :-) > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
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