From: david@lang.hm Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:02:15 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BA3855A.1070005@alum.mit.edu> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Michael Haggerty wrote: > Michael Witten wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:41, Michael Haggerty wrote: >>> Michael Witten wrote: >>>> Rather than use a (name,email) pair to identify people, let's use >>>> a (uuid,name,email) triplet. >>>> [...] >>> A UUID doesn't need to be a big hex number. All it has to be is a >>> "Universally Unique Identifier". Like, oh, for example, your >>> >>> *** EMAIL ADDRESS *** >>> >>> [1]. There is even already a way to fix up mistakes or unavoidable >>> email address changes, namely the .mailmap file. >> >> *facepalm* >> >> You've just repeated everything that I've said; go look at the rest of >> the thread, where I spend plenty of time correcting the same hangups >> about my choice of the word UUID and my use of hex digits. > > No, my point is to use the *existing* email address as the UUID > *without* adding another field. Nothing needs to be changed! if you are now proposing using the e-mail address, that already exists and is supported by the tools, it sounds like you are just withdrawing your proposal (other than possibly proposing that the e-mail field gets renamed to UUID????) David Lang