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Namecoin ID : Manage your online identity

Description

The purpose of id/ is to manage a public online identity.

  • Any application can retrieve data associated with an identity.
  • An identity can be composed of email addresses, bitcoin/namecoin/*coin addresses, gpg key, xmpp address, etc.
  • Each application type that want to store data associated with an identity must be added in the registered applications list with a description on how data will be formatted.

Syntax

  • namespace : id/
  • name :

- max 255 characters,

- lowercase,

- a-z, 0-9

- space : max one space between other characters, not as first or last

- prefixed with "id/"

Regexp (to be confirmed) : 

^id/[a-z0-9]([ ]?[a-z0-9])*$
  • value : max 1023 characters, json encoded

Examples

Fecthing all data from the identity of "khal" : 

$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "email"    : "khal@dot-bit.org",
   "bitcoin"  : "1J3EKMfboca3SESWGrQKESsG1MA9yK6vN4",
   "namecoin" : "N2pGWAh65TWpWmEFrFssRQkQubbczJSKi9"
}

Fecthing bitcoin data from the identity of "khal" : 

$ namecoind name_jsonget id/khal bitcoin
{
   "bitcoin"  : "1J3EKMfboca3SESWGrQKESsG1MA9yK6vN4",
}

Registered applications

Application Description Rules Examples
email associate the id with an email address must contain an email address 
{
   "email"    : "khal@dot-bit.org"
}
namecoin associate the id with a namecoin address * a namecoin address, or
* an array of namecoin addresses, or
* an object of namecoin addresses with labels (label "default" is required) 
$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "namecoin" :
   {
     "N2pGWAh65TWpWmEFrFssRQkQubbczJSKi9"
   }
}

$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "namecoin" :
   {
     ["N15mJsVMHNtVDedDnD8vu82M5hCfn3nJWq", "N2pGWAh65TWpWmEFrFssRQkQubbczJSKi9"]
   }
}

$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "namecoin" :
   {
     "default" : "N15mJsVMHNtVDedDnD8vu82M5hCfn3nJWq",
     "donation": "N2pGWAh65TWpWmEFrFssRQkQubbczJSKi9"
   }
}

Other possible usages

Application Description Rules Examples
bitcoin associate the id with a bitcoin address * a bitcoin address, or
* an array of bitcoin addresses, or
* an object of bitcoin addresses with labels (label "default" is required) 
$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "bitcoin" :
   {
     "default" : "1KHAL8bUjnkMRMg9yd2dNrYnJgZGH8Nj6T",
     "donation": "1J3EKMfboca3SESWGrQKESsG1MA9yK6vN4"
   }
}

Allow to securely get a different address for each customer (or anything else, information between brackets will be asked to user) on an untrusted channel (like http), signed with a bitcoin address. 

$ namecoind name_show id/khal
{
   "bitcoin" :
   {
     "default" :
     {
       "url" : "http://merchant.com/bitcoin/getnewaddres/{Your customer id}",
       "signedWith" : "1KHAL8bUjnkMRMg9yd2dNrYnJgZGH8Nj6T",
       "useOnce": true
     }
   }
}
gpg associate the id with a gpg public key TODO See Personal_Namespace
xmpp associate the id with an xmpp/jabber id * an xmpp address 
{
   "xmpp"    : "jabber@dot-bit.org"
}


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