Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-acct-uri-05.txt

["Markus Lanthaler" <[e-mail]>]

On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:35 AM, Paul E. Jones wrote:
> Wherever the acct URI is used, I would assume a human initially provided
the
> URI (directly or indirectly via a simple "user@domain" entry).  How would
> the human user know any date associated with an account?

I'm not so sure about that, but in any case, why not simply use the current
date when the user enters the acct URI? That way the system would know once
for all that the user meant the account that was valid at that point in
time.


> I think recycling account identifiers is a "bad thing".  Set aside the
acct
> URI scheme itself for a minute.  Just imagine some prospective employer
> performing a search one day for some Yahoo! user ID and discovering all
> kinds of nasty things posted on the web several years ago by the previous
> owner of that account.  The new owner might lose an opportunity for
> employment.

True, but if a date would have been used there as well it would be possible
to distinguish the two accounts.


> Having a date as a part of any user identifier might help, but it is a
> little difficult for the average person to use.  Could you imagine if all
> account IDs looked like [e-mail]?

What about [e-mail]?date=20130701

Is that still too difficult? The date wouldn't have to be necessary though.
A user can simply type in [e-mail] and the system adds the
current date automatically.



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Markus Lanthaler
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