User @ domain.tld as ID (Once again)

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Richard 'toast' Russo wrote:
> Not necessarily to you in particular, but what is with everyone's
> hangup on user at host?

The reason people (read "the reason I") want something like this is that 
it has potential to become the single true ID.  People are tired of 
remembering an ID for every site they go to.

> 1) Even with some magic mapping function, it's just never going to
> work for everyone.  Period.

I am not particullary a supporter of a mapping function.

> 2) People aren't comfortable using email addresses as identifiers. 
> This is why you can set a username everywhere, even if they require
> an email address for registration.

There are several places where I register with my email address.  It 
makes things much eaiser for me personally.  One less thing to remember.

> 3) What's a cooler identifier: russor at openid.enslaves.us or
> openid.enslaves.us?  People use vanity domains for this, and
> requiring a user@ in front of the domain could reduce the coolness of
> the identifier.  (yes openid.enslaves.us gets cannonicallized into
> http://openid.enslaves.us/, and i could have openid at enslaves.us
> instead... but that's particular to this vanity domain... if i had
> the domain iamtoa.st ... i sure wouldn't want to put a user@ in front
> of it... and i can't just do iam at toa.st, because toa.st is taken)
> 

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Matthew A. Nicholson
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