Continuing the discussion from Proposal: iroh-with-atp:
There’s a pattern emerging of atproto for personal identity and iroh for device/app identity.
For example, atproto DIDs as phone numbers, mediated by Iroh. To me, my DID is already behaving as my social-media phone number. My domain of course is the shorthand, but the did is the actual number.
It’s not important that the did itself is humanly memorable. Even our phone contacts nowadays are 99% names; we only know the actual number of a handful relatives and best friends (I honestly can only be bothered to remember my own and my dad’s).
From @boscolo.co :
People might see “phone numbers” (and thus analogies to phone numbers) as somehow a private identifier so the thought of it hanging it out there for all to see is cursed. In reality it isn’t, it’s public like an email address but the spam-blocking is so bad people want to hide it in the closet
Any atproto app based on iroh-live could call other users through any other app supporting the same calling convention.
So I could be on Roomy placing a call to @scottlanoue.com who’d pick it up on his Atmosphere OS.
Chad Fowler has built the single-app version of this already in freeq: AV Call Protocol — the room where humans and agents work
Once another app has mimicked that implementation we can give app-agnostic calls a try.