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[Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>]

On Tue, 2006-28-11 at 13:25 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> As I understood things from Jer way back when, the point of a microid is
> to form an association between me and you (where the URIs are stand-ins
> for those entities).

If that were the case, then we'd associate two communication urls, so
that evan AT prodromou.name and stpeter AT jabber.org were associated.

But that's not what we do. We associate an identity with a _resource_,
and resources have all kinds of URLs.

Now, for some kinds of Web services, there's only one resource on that
service that I should be associated with. But there are many services
that have more than one resource per user, and it doesn't make sense to
limit it to just one.

Let's not hobble this extremely simple and elegant standard with any
assumptions about the nature of domains and URLs.

>  If I am http://saint-andre.com/ (which I own) and I
> accept comments (which I don't), then a microid that mashes up that HTTP
> URI and your mailto URI (or XMPP URI or whatever) can be used on any
> page where you comment at my website.

That seems like a bad idea. Each comment should have a URL (probably
just a <div> with an id attribute works), and each microid should match
the identifier with exactly that URL.

> http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/2006-01.html#2006-01-13T10:07

Har! Funny that the gentleman from Verisign thinks that domain
registration is the basis of identity... Do you have a quote from Bob
Parsons on the subject, too? ;-)

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>