XRI canonical id question

[Martin Atkins]

Drummond Reed wrote:
> 
> Right on the money. I would go further and recommend that an RP not even
> store the i-name, just the i-number and a user's preferred display name.
> That way the i-name becomes really just a convenient way for the user to
> give the RP their i-number (CanonicalID).
> 

I agree that sites should just display a preferred display name for each 
user, but that name needs to initially be set to something, since 
bothering the user to enter a display name when all he wants to do is 
sign in is a bad idea, in my opinion.

The simple profile extension can supply a reasonable default, but where 
that isn't available the supplied i-name makes a much nicer default than 
the i-number.