<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Maybe only if some chain also followed the number around through number reassignments,<div class="">iotw if each number had its own chain of number reassignments?<br class=""><div class="">__outer<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2020-09-24 (268), at 10:51:24, Francis Pouatcha via cryptography <<a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com" class="">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:25 PM Patrick Chkoreff <<a href="mailto:pc@fexl.com" class="">pc@fexl.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Bill Frantz wrote on 9/23/20 4:50 PM:<br class="">
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> It sounds like we're getting into Zooko's triangle territory. The<br class="">
> general solution to this dillema is Pet Names. A pet name only has local<br class="">
> significance. My address book is full of pet names, which resolve to<br class="">
> real email addresses, postal addresses, and telephone numbers.<br class="">
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Yes, as I was driving around thinking about Phillip's post, I thought<br class="">
that I'd want my name to be 10 random digits, like a phone number, e.g.<br class="">
@071-449-6372. Then my friends would just map "Patrick" to that in<br class="">
their contact lists.<br class=""></blockquote><div class="">Even better with the country code. I would like to be addressed with my phone number @+1-678-432-3321 .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Transparency can be achieved by documenting reassignment of phone numbers in the merkle tree.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Francis</div></div></div>
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