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

["Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>]

Markus,

> 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.

If you want the end user to enter the current date, there is no need: the
system could provide that.  However, end users are not usually performing an
account verification.  They're querying for information or sending an email
or something. 


> > 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.

You want to change the format of the email URI, too?

Paul