Call directed identity "anonymous login"? (was RE: concerns about each user having a unique "URL")

[James A. Donald]

Drummond Reed wrote:
 > The term Josh uses, "IdP-driven identifier selection",
 > is technically accurate, but somewhat like "directed
 > identity", I fear I it will be lost on the general
 > public.
 >
 > The best candidate I can think of so far is "anonymous
 > login", because that seems to go straight to the heart
 > of the benefit to the End User.
 >
 > Is it strictly anonymous? No, it's pseudononymous.
 > Furthermore, using IdP-driven identifier selection, an
 > End User could in fact use this feature and end up
 > deciding to use one of their public, easily
 > correlatable Claimed Identifiers. So it's not always
 > strictly pseudononymous either.
 >
 > But "anonymous login" still seems to be the best name
 > I can think of that lets the general public quickly
 > grok the essence of this feature.
 >
 > Does anyone else have a better suggestion?

Cypherpunks and the cryptonomicon discuss identity at
considerable length.  In their terminology, it is nymous
login.

The user can have as many nyms as he pleases, thereby
controlling the extent to which his identity is
revealed.  "Nym" merely means name, but the association
with "anonymous" and "pseudonym" implies that it can
easily be a cheap and disposable name, or a name that is
one of a rather large number of names that cannot be
easily linked to each other by outsiders.