- From: Sören Preibusch <Soren.Preibusch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 03 Aug 2009 18:20:41 +0100
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Yes, but it poses interesting technical questions since TLD internationalisation has so far affected the "right-hand part" of email addresses only. The local part (on the left of the @-sign) is still far more restricted in the character set. So unless MySpace imposes restrictions on the "foo" in the first place, there may be vanity urls which do not translate correctly to email addresses. A similar phenomenon had arisen on networks which make profile pages available through subdomains ([1] foouser.coolplace.sns -> coolplace.sns/profiles/foouser [2]). The restrictions on the user name in [1] are tougher than in [2]. Considering the bigger picture, in particular wrt. other W3C work, HTTP uris have been used in a broader context than mail uris: they are typically used with HTTP verbs (GET, POST, DELETE, ...); there has been endeavours to build state into HTTP urls; and the potential of the fragment identifier (#) is explored [http://www.w3.org/TR/hash-in-uri/], just to name a few. Sören >One interesting thing about this is the myspace using the vanity URL >pattern to map to an email: > >myspace.com/foo -> foo@myspace.com (after activation) > >This pattern seems to make a lot of sense.
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