I would recommend using WebFinger — it's emerging as the solution to this
problem and a lot of the right folks are at the table. I think it would be
very wise and strategic to get laconica to support this effort:
http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger

There's also an interesting proposal in the works from the author of the
OAuth spec:

http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/e18124c3df0b10fe

Chris

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Fil <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are talks of relaunching the finger service, but over http. The
> base would be an email address, since that's what's most used. It
> would then answer with info like "homepage", "photo account", and so
> on.
>
> Peek around "webfinger" and discussions
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Jan Wildeboer<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was just thinking it might make sense to have sth like a DNS for
> account
> > names. A service that you query with an account name and it gives back a
> > list of laconica servers that host this account name.
>
>
> -- Fil
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