The VRM email list is once again suffering a bout of name angst. There are many identity geeks on the list and an existential question of the extent to which identity flows from the name and vice versa so it’s always an interesting discussion, regardless of whether headway is made. I’m of the opinion that the name tends to define the thing and that this is in fact part of the problem with VRM up to now. It has become defined, to the point of being confined, by it’s own name.