On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 23 March 2010 23:20, John Panzer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A fundamental premise of Webfinger is that there are a lot of users -- >> today, probably the majority of the Internet -- who are comfortable with and >> know their email address (or email like identifier, like a Jabber ID), who >> have no interest in acquiring an HTTP identifier as well, and in fact an >> extra HTTP identifier is a hindrance to them using the technology. So, the >> desire to avoid the HTTP identifier in a user visible context derives from >> that premise. And a login ID is definitely user visible; it's how you show >> a user who they're currently logged in as, for example. > > > Exactly, so why not say that the login ID is the "real" ID and be done with > it? >
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