Identity Uniqueness Problem - Can openid solve it?

[Ben Laurie]

On 9/20/06, 백주성 <jsbaek at daumcorp.com> wrote:
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> Identity Uniqueness Problem
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> In real world, there are people who's name is same. But, in online, they
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> It has been required because of two-way communication, ex) email.
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> Now, as you know, spam makes email useless. This lead URL based Identifier –
> openid, xri.
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> But, why they keep "Identity Uniqueness" still ? The namespace of opened,
> xri is enormous, but the namespace that people really want is so small.
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> After last decade – internet boom - , lets say it first internet generation,
> nobody can get id what he really want in yahoo, ebay…
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> You know, then how people make id – his name plus his birth year, phone
> number, birth date , etc..
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> After second internet generation, what will happen?
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> I think openid and xri also have same problem.
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> Identifier should be one which he/she really want.
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> Identifier can be modified as his/her wish.
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> Identifier should not be unique.

If an identifier is not unique, it is not an identifier, it is something else.

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> How do you think about that?
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