Post #2175088

2023-03-29 02:52 UTC

@hallam@infosec.exchange The question is, who types in alice.m3-- that makes a global pretty name compelling? Most pretty names have context. I see you as @hallam@infosec.exchange but that's merely your pretty name for this platform which knows you as RWSHZ... You might be @phillip on a certain bird web site, but under the covers that site knows you as RWSHZ... Keeping pretty names out of primary name space eliminates many problems including land-grab, cost, litigation & attacks.

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@hallam@infosec.exchange 2023-03-29 03:19

@markd@hachyderm.io Yeah, I am pretty sure that there is a place for the callsign system even though it will require a registry and thus incur costs. There is no way I can expect people to exchange fingerprints as contact addresses and the ICANN tax is ridiculous. Not acting means perpetuating the ICANN tax. But callsigns are really hailing addresses. They are a way to make contact with Alice. and they will invariably end up being mediated through a callsign binding giving the UDF of the user's root of trust. So we can just transition to the UDF based fingerprint DNS scheme at that point since we are going under the covers anyway. So yes, alice.m3-- still has some value, can type it in to an address bar to get to Alice's Web pages. But it isn't a canonical form and isn't needed as a forever name.

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