>  Why do you care what kind of URIs people use to identify
>  themselves? It shouldn't matter whether they choose any of
>  mailto, http, ldap, uuid, or even urn as their favorite scheme
>  as long as it's unique.

I'm simply suggesting that email boxes are "owned" and therefore it is
easier to assert statements when using them as a unique identifier for a
persons interface to the Web. Look at Dan's FOAF stuff -
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1

If I said I "owned" an http:// URI, how easy would that be to prove
(ignoring TLDs - not everybody owns a TLD)?

Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
http://infomesh.net/sbp/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF]
"Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
   - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.