<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style=""><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Personally, I find</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">little utility in having the identifier I authenticate by as being</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">precisely the same as the URL for my blog.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>I very much disagree.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- If somebody types your name (or whatever details about you) into Google, don't you want the first URL to show up to be your identity URL?</DIV><DIV>- If you leave a comment on somebody else's web page, don't you want a click onto your identity URL to lead back to your blog?</DIV><DIV>- If somebody tags "you" in del.icio.us, it's likely they will "accidentally" tag your blog instead of your identity URL.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If might be different if we could say "this cloud of URLs are all my pages" but currently I'm not aware of any technology that does this ...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>