[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Ben Laurie]

Tyler Close wrote:
> 
> On Feb 7, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
>> I agree it solves the problem of confusable URLs.
> 
> 
> Great.
> 
>>  I can't get very excited about that without a solution to the problem 
>> of how I realistically get hold of things to associate petnames with. 
>> Currently, if I want to go to Paypal's site, I type it in - petnames 
>> don't help me.
> 
> 
> So the fact that the WWW does not currently support safe hyperlinking 
> doesn't bother you? Your bank has a web site, but on the current WWW, it 
> is not safe to follow a hyperlink to that web site. In my opinion, this 
> is deeply broken. That petnames fix this problem is very important and 
> exciting.

We have agreed that they fix the problem of confusable URLs, not the 
problem of trustable URLs.

> Are you sure you disagree? Is the web part of the World Wide 
> Web really not important to you?

The fact that a site I don't trust points to another site I don't trust 
doesn't particularly disturb me. Also, I have mechanisms that appear 
adequate to allow me to form trust relationships on the web as it exists 
today. A web consisting only of sites I trusted would be a very boring 
place. You appear to want me to read something into the word "web" other 
than "a pile of links to stuff, some of which I find useful". I don't 
particularly see the value of redefining the word.