Comments on: Phone 2.0: DNS Dialing Anyone? http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:58:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Johannes Ernst http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-284328 Johannes Ernst Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:56:58 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/#comment-284328 What you describe was one of the use cases that led to the development of Light-Weight Identity (LID), the original URL-based digital identity protocol, which is one of the foundations of the OpenID movement: The idea was to bookmark URLs instead of typing phone numbers into address books on mobile phones. By "derefernencing" the URL at run-time, different physical endpoint addresses (aka phone numbers) can be found, and I can reach you wherever you happen to be. If it only resolves to an IM handle, well, then I can still reach you but only by IM. What you describe was one of the use cases that led to the development of Light-Weight Identity (LID), the original URL-based digital identity protocol, which is one of the foundations of the OpenID movement:

The idea was to bookmark URLs instead of typing phone numbers into address books on mobile phones. By “derefernencing” the URL at run-time, different physical endpoint addresses (aka phone numbers) can be found, and I can reach you wherever you happen to be. If it only resolves to an IM handle, well, then I can still reach you but only by IM.

]]> By: funTomas http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-284012 funTomas Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:43:12 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/#comment-284012 ...just find out, Google <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-talk-not-dead-after-all.html" rel="nofollow">doesn't seem to agree on phone numbers obsoleteness</a>. …just find out, Google doesn’t seem to agree on phone numbers obsoleteness.

]]> By: funTomas http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-284002 funTomas Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:25:50 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2008/03/02/phone-20-dns-dialing-anyone/#comment-284002 Robert, have you considered ENUM? That might by the right solution however, it requires participation on the traditional phone companies side and that's the bigest hurdle on the road to universal identifier. Robert, have you considered ENUM? That might by the right solution however, it requires participation on the traditional phone companies side and that’s the bigest hurdle on the road to universal identifier.

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