against using user@host identifiers

[Paul Crowley]

Xageroth Sekarius wrote:
> User URL: http://id_host.com/users/jane/
> Fetch HTML (or other) for: http://id_host.com/users/jane/
> Follow LINK rel to identity services: http://id_host.com/cgi/service.pl
> 
> Alternate form:
> User ID: jane~id_host.com
> Fetch HTML (or other) for: http://id_host.com/
> Follow LINK rel to identity services: http://id_host.com/cgi/services.pl

Why is jane~id_host.com so much better than id_host.com/~jane - bearing 
in mind that the latter is already supported by the current OpenID proposal?
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