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Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question

Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> Mon, 02 July 2012 11:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question
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On 01/07/2012 23:02, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 7/1/12 9:38 AM, William Mills wrote:
>> Section 4.3:  '"@" domainpart' should be optional.  It's reasonable
>> to think this might be used with local account identifiers that
>> don/t/need have a domain.
>
> Making the domain name of the service provider implicit seems
> ill-advised to me. What's the harm of including the domainpart?

+1

(URIs are intended to be a global namespace.)

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