Do We Agree on the Problem We're Trying to Solve?

[Recordon, David]

On Jun 8, 2007, at 10:50, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> I would suggest that any solution to B is also very likely a solution

> to A.
I would agree with that statement.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Ernst [mailto:jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us] 
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:50 AM
To: Dick Hardt
Cc: Recordon, David; specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: Do We Agree on the Problem We're Trying to Solve?

I would suggest that any solution to B is also very likely a solution  
to A.

Anybody disagree?

If so, I'd suggest that we should either solve A and B at the same  
time, or not at all.



On Jun 8, 2007, at 10:42, Dick Hardt wrote:

> At IIW we[1] decided we wanted to solve (A) and that (B) would be
> nice to solve, but we were ok to wait for a future version to
> resolve, as when we discussed (B), resolving looked much harder then
> it seemed at first.
>
> I'm not certain of where we are now.
>
> -- Dick
>
> [1] those present when we met about how to solve recycling ...
>
> On 8-Jun-07, at 10:35 AM, Recordon, David wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if we all think we're trying to solve the same problem.
>> The two problems that have been discussed are:
>> A) Identifier recycling normally in large user-base deployments.   
>> i.e.
>> <insert big company> needs a way to give 'TheBestUsernameEver' to a
>> new
>> user if it has not been used in some period of time.
>> B) Losing control of your own domain name whether that be via someone
>> stealing it or just that you don't want to have to pay for it  
>> forever.
>>
>> Have we made a decision as to if we're looking for a solution to  
>> solve
>> both of these problems, only A, or only B?
>>
>> --David
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