Idea #21495
Updated by Peter Amstutz 3 months ago
This is just an idea, but a lot of platforms use a flat namespace for users and groups (github, for example). Arvados has several addressing modes (uuids, content addresses, unique names within projects) but lacks a system wide flat human-managed namespace (with the exception of usernames on user accounts).
We could add an optional "username" field to groups (maybe even collections?) which would share a uniqueness index with users, groups could then be optionally assigned a username which could be used as an alternate, friendlier name for access via APIs like keep-web.