Hi Justin,
[not sure why kitten@ is in the Cc. Feel free to drop]
At 08:15 10-05-2012, Justin Richer wrote:
"user@domain" represents a person. SMTP, XMPP, SIP, and other
protocols have used this format successfully. OpenID made the
mistake of trying to teach people that "http://domain/user"; could
also stand for them, but people just don't think of themselves in
terms of HTTP URLs. Webfinger came about to address this, and SWD adopted
The strings industry probably have some reason to believe that people
think of themselves in terms of domain names. Some people think of
the other person in terms of "what's your [insert social
network]?". There are several specifications which reference rfc822
identifiers. The interesting point in the above is what will be
people's expected behavior while taking into account the usual
technical limitations.
Regards,
-sm
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