[OpenID] Proposal: SMTP service extension for Yadis discovery

[Recordon, David]

This is actually something that is used in the Auth 2.0 spec, where
there can be a Yadis document for an entire domain.

--David 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Dmitry Shechtman
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 5:22 AM
To: 'David Fuelling'
Cc: general at openid.net; yadis at lists.danga.com
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Proposal: SMTP service extension for Yadis
discovery

David, although this may be an interesting idea, Yadis (unlike SMTP)
isn't meant for host-global communications. A Yadis document normally
corresponds to a single user record.

Furthermore, a user identifier isn't necessarily a URL. It may very well
be an XRI. So if your iname expires, you could theoretically tie your
email address to your inumber. 


> A.) I guess I'm not clear why we would involve SMTP in this at all.

In case you didn't read my reply to Martin, there is quite a large niche
of users who don't feel comfortable with OpenID because it requires them
to use a URL for an identifier. An email address is a much more familiar
concept.


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian

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