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@DrOct And ain't that all we can hope for in life? šŸ™ƒ

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@DrOct I'm not actually suggesting using phone number as the ID for point-of-contact (unless you want to), just as the semi-public (as in, you don't care if it's leaked, as you do with an SSN) central coorditing authority that links all of your various accounts and acts as a switch-board between them. It can also potentially be used to confirm that the @-name you're sending a message to is connecting to the person you intend to be connecting with.

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@jrladd waves

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@oyam Yeah I don't think it's a good solution, just a slightly better solution than using a domain.

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@dancohen I mean, it's not like we don't have a slew of government IDs already, but now I'm warming to the idea of a phone number, which isn't a perfect solution for a number of reasons, but it's an existing one, which is even better than perfect.

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@dancohen Your last message convinced me =]. Sure, but that's where this conversation is already leaning. Not only that, there have been open protocol like jabber/XMPP (not to mention plain ol' RSS) which ultimately failed, but sometimes we can learn from stuff that have failed and make them succeed. I suspect a government-issued ID service, or even something centered around a phone number, would at least be slightly easier than a domain for every person.

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@scott\\_bot @dancohen Actually we already have such a number - a phone number. The issue is it's not owned by an individual, but a phone is already a handy tool that can do the routing for us.

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@dancohen I realize ICQ tried this and failed, authority control would be even more complex than usual, shifting a government is essentially impossible, and I realize this idea is absurd, but:

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We already all have a government-issued private ID number. A solution might be a universal public ID number that people can connect to whatever services they like, which acts as a sort of central operator for communication and authority control. My twitter, facebook, email, etc. are all connected to this number, and either I or some central system is responsible for routing messages from one point of contact to each other point of contact through this central number.

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