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

[Dick Hardt]

On 8-Jun-07, at 2:29 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> Multiple, redundant identifiers is what canonical ID mapping  
> provides. It
> doesn't require a master directory; it's as distributed as OpenID  
> itself,
> i.e., it simply provides a way to map a reassignable URL or XRI to a
> persistent URL or XRI.

The persistent URL or XRI *is* a master directory. What do you do  
when the persistent identifier is compromised, goes out of business ...

That is problem B.

Canonical IDs do not solve B.

-- Dick