MSC3839: primary-identity-as-key

[zander]

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[uhoreg]

Thank you for your proposal. I'm marking this as a draft since it needs more details before it can be considered. For example, what encryption algorithms are used, the format for the QR code, the shape of the API endpoints, etc.

[richvdh]

@zander wrote

Its really off-topic to write lots of pages of text about another proposal on this PR

I don't think that's fair. I take no view as to which solution is preferable, but if there are two proposals to solve a problem, it is absolutely on-topic to describe why you see another solution as preferable.

Everyone: we aim to achieve consensus on what constitutes a good change to the spec, and we do that via discussion. People will have different opinions, and that is fine, but please be nice about it, and assume good intent rather than malice. Expressions such as "Back in the real world" and "Do a search for..." are, frankly, condescending and are more likely to aggravate than lead to quality discussion.

[zander]

if there are two proposals to solve a problem, it is absolutely on-topic to describe why you see another solution as preferable.

Everyone should be able to say what is wrong with this one, which is better solved in another one. But maybe the details of how its better solved should be on "the other one". Especially when its mostly personal opinion as what we observed this week is mostly propoaganda of another solution and coming up with not very well researched reasons why this one is bad.

Thank you for hiding the messages, I hope we can see more pragmatic work here going forward.

[richvdh]

@zander @izN8nu6RyeneG5XnBoBgyRMVGH6H43WF Please use comments on the file changes view to start discussions, so that Github tracks them as separate threads and they can be marked as "Resolved" once addressed.

I've hidden the comments in the main PR for that reason.