concerns about each user having a unique "URL"

Thu Nov 2 23:00:53 UTC 2006

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:31 -0500, Peter Watkins wrote:
> Also, while the obvious user identifier would be something like 
>   username + "id." + domain name ("plumbers.co")
> For years we have allowed characters in the username field that are
> not compatible with RFC 952,

Can you side-step this by putting the username in the path component,
i.e. "id.plumbers.co/Patrick O'Rourke"?