[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Joshua Bell]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> That's one thing Blue Mars does better. Your actual login identification is
> by an email address they don't share with anyone, so there's no collection
> of login names available for bulk attacks.
>
> I really wanted LL to add another layer ABOVE the account name, not BELOW
> it. :)


This was considered when the "Display Names" feature was designed, and while
this separation is not part of this work, there was care to make sure that
it wasn't precluded either.

Ideally, IMHO, there would be at least three "names":

(1) login identifier (used with password as login credential)
(2) unique human readable identifier
(3) casual conversational identifier

Prior to "Display Names", the Second Life (firstname, lastname) tuple was
used as all three. "Display Names" separates (2) and (3), but (1) and (2)
are still the same.

I'm not sure if the work to do so is on anyone's backlog - I'm betting
there's a PJIRA on it, though. Technically, it's much less code to touch
than "Display Names" (since a login-only private credential would be used in
far fewer places in the code than username or display names), but it would
be mostly server-side so the community can't help much.

Joshua
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