Urbit ID • Overview
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An overview of the Urbit ID system
Broadly construed, Urbit ID is the mechanism for both naming and contacting a particular computer on the network. You could call it an identity, a number, a name, an address, or it’s technical moniker a @p (“pat-pee”). In fact, at the technical level, each Urbit ID is really just a number. From that number we generate a pronounceable name and a visually identifiable sigil. ~dalwel-fadrun is 3,509,632,436, for example. The Urbit ‘address space’ encompasses many different types of identities. The shorter names—four syllables and below—are instantiated as a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on…
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