From: Mark Brown Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:49 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <20100322120649.GA28003@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:09:34AM -0600, Michael Witten wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey wrote: > > While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to > > pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail > > consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and > > he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus, > > but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed. > Indeed. > This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email' > config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email > account. You're assuming they aren't conflated - for example, when people do work both personally and for their employer they often use distinct e-mail addresses to identify how the work was funded.