Identity Uniqueness Problem - Can openid solve it?

Danny Ayers danny.ayers at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 18:25:23 UTC 2006


A couple of reference points:

Although the URI is *the* identifier of the web, there are reasons
here why you might want to avoid using a URI as a direct identifier of
a person, as described in -

Identifying things in FOAF (Dan Brickley)
http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/2003/07/10/12.05.33/

On the other hand...you can just -

Give yourself a URI (Tim Berners-Lee)
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/71

Cheers,
Danny.

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