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CLAWs IDENTITY NUMBER (CIN)

Project: SinProject
Parent: ClawnetWishlist Maintainer: WebMonkey ? &/or Committee
Status: Proposal, we need to choose something Description: unique ID; add your contender to SinProject or comment here

d@vid Apr 22 03:

the ISBN proposal is a joke but kinda neat imh(&geeky)o, otherwise
just a username or some form of algorithm will suffice; CINs ? would be used to login to CLAWsite ?, as your default eekmail prefix and
as index on databases like the ListOfSouls

d@vid Apr 22 03 also:

hmmm... just noted Ada's simpler wishlist suggestion, I'll keep SinProject and SinWishlist separate to separate comments and SIN contenders for now

Mike Apr 23 03:

Slight issue with the whole user ID issue. If you check out the cthulist, you'll see a whole mountain of funky clawnames and e-mails and the like. Only one small problem...the casual observer has no idea who some of these people are! Their e-mails are obscure enough that only their nearest and dearest (who probably knew the address anyway) can figure out who they belong to. That problem transfers to CIN IDs ?. If it's some arb number combination, then when you see your section of the ClawWiki (site..etc..) has been commented on by 799689068@claws.net, you can't track back the person to respond. Same with names (even with WikiNames ? - though people tend to create a page which mentions their real names). So DeathLordofTheAbyss ? likes my take on Aberrant superpowers - who is this person?

I like the idea of Eekmail, but I'm wary of this whole revolutionize-the-Claw-login plan. "If it ain't broke, hit it with hammer 'till it is, then fix it. " ;-)

Mike

Mark Apr 24 03:

Wiki logins aren't going to be affected at all by CINs ? (at least the way I currently envision the CLAWnet project - other opinions may differ).

The database behind CLAWnet associates with the CIN a Firstname, Middlename, Nickname, Surname (and, well, everything
else about you in the List of Souls).

The CIN would generally be used as your user name when you login to CLAWnet. There you'd be able to
set the FRIENDLY_NAME that would appear, for example, on the loan record for a CLAWs library book (so when you go online to see if the 3rd Ed DMG is available you can see who's taken it out). Every name appearing on such a page would link to a CLAWnet
page with information about that person. (Obviously what information is displayed must be dependent on whether the viewer is logged on, whether you've specifically allowed it etc.).

So generally I don't think there'd be a problem with opaque usernames.
The importance of deciding a good format for the CIN is to make it easy to remember, easy to implement in the database and dynamic web pages, but not necessarily immediately obvious who the CIN belongs to. If you want to know that, you'd log in to CLAWnet
and look at the info page for the CIN.

d@vid Apr 24 03:

higzackterly! come to my arms! CIN is purely for database purposes, there may be other unique IDs ?, but one would hope there's a Unique ID Crossreference Table on da database; I would forsee the CLAWnet sending email to CLAWmembers via their CIN 1234@claws.uct.ac.za, but people using friendly names bob@claws.uct.ac.za, for example

basically your CIN is your default login to the CLAWnet, if you have no other (the Wiki, though, operates on it's own terms and I don't see CIN being used here at all really)