Do We Agree on the Problem We're Trying to Solve?

Josh Hoyt josh at janrain.com
Mon Jun 11 18:20:26 UTC 2007


On 6/11/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> Presumably the recommendation would be to have several identifiers
> attached to a single account just as is recommended today. I would point
> most of my identifiers at one canonical identifier but retain one or
> more special "backup identifiers" that do not point at my "persistent"
> identifier so that I can reclaim my account if my persistent identifier
> goes away.

Why bother with a canonical identifier if you're going to need
multiple identifiers attached to an account anyway?



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