Hi, Sorry for the late answer.
Le mardi 9 juin 2026, 17:29:38 heure d’été d’Europe centrale snit via Standards a écrit : > Just a bit of bikeshedding (I'm not gigabrain enough to comment on much else here), but I would really prefer the term XDID over XID. > I frequently see XID used as a synonym of JID in various communities for various reasons, and it'd be annoying to assign an unrelated but similar meaning to the term at the same time. > Furthermore, the term XID omits the one word that even differentiates it from the existing XID/JIDs: decentralisation. Why pretend the most important part doesn't matter? > This was brought up in the XSF MUC, for which the only response was that XDID is "uglier" than XID. I don't think we should be prioritising aesthetic over meaningful and unambiguous terminology. The actual response was to ask if "XID" was used in any spec or if there are proof that it's widely used (and this has not been answered as far as I can tell). The official acronym for XMPP identifier is `JID` for historical reasons. XDID would actually be confusing with https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/ that was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. "Ugly" is not prioritizing aesthetic: if humans have to share this ID, a user- friendly name is better. However, I'm not fully opposed to change the name, but I find "XID" quite good, and I don't recall seeing it used instead of "JID" (I sometime see the larger form "XMPP ID"). We can see during experimental phase if it is really confusing and causing troubles, in which case another names will be explored. Best, Goffi
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