On 10/9/07, Adam Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Kyzivat wrote: > > It sounds like you are looking for a global registry of mappings from > > human names to various sorts of addresses. That might be something > > like ENUM, but with the keys being human names rather than phone > numbers. > > Alternately, you can see it as an LDAP directory with interactive user > permissions (similar to the winfo/XCAP setup we have for presence). It > would be a fairly straightforward effort to engineer a system fitting > that description, but I think we'd need better defined requirements than > we have so far.
Thanks! But there is another question first. Will you subscribe: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/humanresolvers For example: how does one locate the proper directory server for a given > user? Right. > I doubt a unified global system to hold 2 billion to 3 billion [1] > user records would be technically feasible; and, even it if is, I don't > understand how it could be humanly useful. A search for "John Smith" or > "Wen Zhang" in a directory containing half the world's population would > turn up hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, of records. I would think that a world-wide solution is overly ambitious (and difficult) and not so useful for the average case (which covers a very large number of users). BTW, some folks mentioned location-based solutions. Thanks, pars > In fact, I don't have a particularly common name, and disambiguating > *me* from the several dozen other Adam Roaches you get when you search > on Google is something of a tricky task. And google gives a lot more > context than any directory could ever hope to. Just looking at the top > five hits on Google right now: you can probably guess that I'm not the > tattoo artist or the wardrobe assistant -- but do you know enough about > me to be certain I'm not the Adam Roach from Missouri listed on myspace? > > In other words: I think there needs to be more scope around the problem > before we start contemplating solutions; because the problem, as stated, > has no workable solution. The hurdle isn't technological -- it's human. > > /a > > [1] http://www.news.com/2100-1039_3-6159491.html >
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