user@domain identity form musings

[Xageroth Sekarius]

This may be relevant: http://xageroth.blogspot.com/2005/05/whats-your-sein.html

It was something I developed to shorten the ugliness of my own
URL-based identity solution. It's not so different from an e-mail
address that it loses the familiarity yet it doesn't step on top of
any alternate e-mail/ftp accounts either.

Short and skinny of it, just using a made-up syntax of "~" instead of
"@" to avoid conflict. So jane.doe~somedomain.com, detatch
"somedomain.com", fetch LINK tag, and that would resolve to identity
services (or in the case of OpenID perhaps would resolve to the "real"
URL for the sake of shorter identifiers).

(sorry David, meant to send this to list)

On 5/27/05, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me make sure I dont inject controversy into any of this though.  What
> OpenID is right now is FANTASTIC!!!  So, if there seems to be too much
> opposite thought on this matter I would certainly rather spend my time
> building the code for the system that attracted me to this list in the first
> place. Maybe when the code for several platforms is complete we can revisit
> this and see how we might be able to make things better.  But even still...
> I'm here because of this > OpenID not this > OpenID.name.  I will gladly
> help in any way I can but at this stageof the game injecting this into the
> mix could set things back and I certainly dont want to do that...
> 
> 
> On 5/27/05, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker at gmail.comV�_�rote:
> > By centralized namespace I assume you mean having a centralized system
> that each node relies upon to complete a transaction?  This is not what I am
> suggesting at all.  This is a backdoor, lets keep things solid and tight and
> allow easy access to each other without requiring anything.  Think of it as
> more of a Subversion-styled system where everything is independent and yet
> with the proper credentials can be given access to the latest tagged bits or
> check code into a stream, etc...  
> > 
> > You can be independent without being severed completely from a system. 
> Having backdoor access allows for exactly this.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 5/27/05, Evan Martin < evan.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/27/05, M. David Peterson < xmlhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Excellent arguments Martin.  I concede. :)
> > > >
> > > >  Do you see value in using the OpenID.name?
> > > 
> > > The whole point of OpenID as opposed to [insert system name here] is 
> > > that there isn't a centralized namespace.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > M. David Peterson <aka:xmlhacker/>
> > http://www.xsltblog.com 
> 
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> M. David Peterson <aka:xmlhacker/>
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