[toomuchtodo]

Perhaps it’s time for the development of a standard where your email address isn’t tied to a domain; instead, email is addressed to an identity and the underlying plumbing automatically handles routing and delivery. Very similar to how your mobile phone number is portable between providers.

We can’t expect everyone to own a domain to control their messaging sovereignty.

[umanwizard]

What should it be tied to? Who would maintain the mapping of names to addresses, and wouldn’t this just be reinventing the domain name system?

[toomuchtodo]

DNS is for service discovery, not identity discovery and routing. I leave the rest of your questions for the standard to be developed. I don’t have all the answers, but am willing to pay people smarter than me to figure it out. Accept this sub thread as the official Request For Comments :)

[vbezhenar]

You own private key. Public key is your identity. Public key could be linked to facebook, twitter, github accounts, etc, so you can easily discover or verify people.

[toomuchtodo]

Yeah! Keybase + FastMail’s open JMAP standard is the model I think you’d build on.

[thombles]

Sounds a lot like the nomadic identities in Hubzilla and the Zot protocol.

https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project https://zotlabs.org/help/en/developer/zot_protocol#What_is_Z...

[flurdy]

Wasn't that the idea behind .name TLD initially? Until they sold out and became yet another ccTld

[johnvaluk]

Wouldn't that approach also be doomed to failure? How would you provide a unique domain to every John Smith in the world?