From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:09:34 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <b4087cc51003190509y6ce7ad9dy992254cfe6ac2fb3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100319115445.GA12986@glandium.org>

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> 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.