> The problem with strings is that they are human oriented and human > dependent, on mood and/or trend. Numbers are agnostic. > > Isn't a solution a la IP network numbers possible? I mean, a user, > whatever string is locally associated to it (and this may change), > is uniquely identified by a number that could encode a domain (with > some numbers being absolutely local) [...]
I think the Inferno guys have relevant art. Principals are identified by public keys (which are indeed numbers). But I am not an expert on how this plays out in practice, and I also have a sense that the current Inferno implementation is an approximation of the design goals. Dave Eckhardt
