Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: XMPP Decentralized ID (XID)

Just a bit of bikeshedding (I'm not gigabrain enough to comment on much else here), but I would really prefer the term XDID over XID. 

I frequently see XID used as a synonym of JID in various communities for various reasons, and it'd be annoying to assign an unrelated but similar meaning to the term at the same time. 

Furthermore, the term XID omits the one word that even differentiates it from the existing XID/JIDs: decentralisation. Why pretend the most important part doesn't matter?

This was brought up in the XSF MUC, for which the only response was that XDID is "uglier" than XID. I don't think we should be prioritising aesthetic over meaningful and unambiguous terminology.

On 2 June 2026 9:39:25 am UTC, Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote:
>The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP.
>
>Title: XMPP Decentralized ID (XID)
>Abstract:
>XMPP Decentralized ID (XID) is a DNS independent XMPP entity
>identifier. This specification describes how to generate, use, and
>handle them.
>
>URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/xid.html
>
>The Council will decide in the next two weeks whether to accept this
>proposal as an official XEP.
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