[opensource-dev] separation between login id and publicly visible id(s) (was: display names = the end of 1.x viewers?)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-08-23, at 13:18, Yoz Grahame wrote:
> As Josh and others have said, one of the things we'd need is a unique secret account identifier. Unfortunately the only existing account datum which might work here is email address, and that's not unique, though we're starting to think that it really should be.

If email is an issue...

You could ask people to set up a unique account ID to merge their current accounts into. Or let them choose to keep on using (one of) their existing ID and create new avatars/identities/whatyoucallems under that.