Re: Network identity / brand

On 7/8/12 12:22 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 8 July 2012 17:59, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com 
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>     On 7/8/12 11:24 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
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>         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"
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>     We've had IDs in our lives forever. Why not use it re., whatever
>     comes next?
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> Local identifiers scale locally, and are in competition with each 
> other.  It's the nature of most programmers that they dont normally 
> realize the competitive advantage of using URIs.  Essentially your 
> biggest task then becomes persuading as many people as possible to use 
> your system.  We actually had this situation before the web of 
> documents with competing documentation systems.
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> URIs on the other hand work in perfect cooperation with each other.  
> Eventually all systems of any note will identify things with URIs.  
> URIs also have the advantage that they can be linked to local 
> identifiers.  And, as usual on the web, first movers get an advantage.

Yes, URI everything and everything is Cool!

Kingsley
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>     Kingsley
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>         On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>         <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>             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
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>                 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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Kingsley Idehen	
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