WebFinger at Google

[Santosh Rajan]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:

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> On 23 March 2010 23:20, John Panzer <jpanzer at google.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Exactly, so why not say that the login ID is the "real" ID and be done with
> it?
>

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