Perhaps there is merit in the idea of a DGC implementing the DNS-style idea, which I'd prefer to call an Account Alias. In every DGCs database, an account has a unique identifier, be it all numbers, a letter and some numbers or whatever. The point is it's unique. Thing is that account numbers aren't easy to remember on the most part unless they are your account numbers or ones you use all the time - same as phone numbers. We all (except me!) know our own phone number, but who knows the number of the store we shop at every week, the restaurant we ate at last week. We know the names of these places, and that information lets us call the store or restaurant because there is a place where the location is mapped to a number - a phone book.
Take that idea, and consider how by the addition of a new database table, a DGC could store a list of aliases for accounts. An account might always be 123456 in the appropriate account table, but one or more aliases could be mapped to it in the alias table. Bryan -> 123456, Professional Hacker Services -> 123456, ballerdice -> 123456. Wherever account numbers are normally accepted, changes would need to be made to allow for the entry of an alias obviously. The issue then would be unique aliases. We've all tried to signup for things where we were asked to specify a username, and found all you could have was bryan67893! First in, best dressed on that front. Some of us have also tried to get names like admin, root, system, etc. A DGC would need to decide firstly what names are reserved. What is reserved would be a business decision specific to the DGS in question. Another issue (I am thinking of new ideas as I go along) would be if an alias either expired, or was cancelled, and another person snapped it up - just like domain names - how you deal with that is another issue. Ditto on snapping up names before other people. I might come along and snap up Gaithmans before Eric does, and then go around convincing people I am an exchange agent. More issues to deal with. Perhaps an alias would be more like an Australian domain name, where you can't get a .com.au domain name unless you have a business with the same name or an acceptable variant, or if it's your name. For a cost (since an employee would have to do due diligence, and people cost money) a person or company might file an application for an alias, and that way you can minimize all the similar kinds of issues that the US has to cope with when it comes to domain registration. Comments? BRYAN --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
