Chris Drake wrote: > Hi Josh, > > You've got 6 points under the "use cases", but it's really just 1 use > case, and then 5 consequences recycling. > > Is there room on your Wiki for opposition? It's only going to take > one screwup and an angry victim someplace and the whole recycling > issue could bankrupt someone in the prevailing "identity theft" > lawsuit. > > Why would any responsible Identity provider want to give a past > identity to a new person, and why would we want to encourage this > misbehavior by supporting it ? > > Two easy answers: 1. Namespace exhaustion. AOL, Yahoo, others have this issue today. All the good short identifiers are taken and people want them; some of them have been 'dead' for years; market forces are important here. 2. WIPO + domain name disputes = they may not have a choice. This is really a global version of #1.
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