Google Wave may be the nail in the coffin of what to use as/for your “Internet Identifier” – your JID (aka your GMail ID or email address)

Why? How?

Because now wave does what the folks over at OMB and Identi.ca have been debating over for months – what identifier to use when an OMB post crosses out of the server it’s created on and used/referenced by another.

Various methods have been suggested – most variations on email or JID and others – but now since every ID on an Identi.ca server can have either an email id or a JID and the domain part of that is already unique, the problem has been solved using the 800 lb gorilla implementation rule.

Looks like Google is landing on the real-time messaging terrain in a big way with Google Wave. The cool thing is that it is based on XMPP !

From what I can tell it looks very much like XMPP messaging an added layer of conversation IDs added – i’m wondering if it’s PubSub or MUC based or have they written their own custom component layer. Won’t know until they release more info.

Lots of chatter about it on Twitter, jdev@conferences.jabber.org and other places

I think i’m going to just start posting the one-off things I would post to identica/twitter here, and then work out a way of getting them to identica/twitter :)

Google Wave also appears to be angling to be an aggregator.  In the TechCrunch interview they mention being able to send/receive twitter posts.

This  tells me that if you are running your own Wave server (well, they did say it’s open source) then you could have waveid/domains that are for outside info sources.

hmmmm