Map/Normalize Email Address to IdP/OP URL (Was [PROPOSAL] Handle"http://user at example.com" Style Identifiers)

David Fuelling sappenin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 15:20:41 UTC 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On
>Behalf
> Of Jonathan Daugherty
> # I think that all this discussion about email userid is moving us off
> # track.  My original proposal was that the email maps/normalizes to a
> # URL of an IdP (the userid is ignored/not used).
> #
> # So, 'xyzzy at any.edu' would be treated as if the User had entered
> # 'http://any.edu' (the URL of their IdP/OP) into the OpenId login
> # form.
>
> Then why not just enter 'http://any.edu' or 'any.edu' instead?
>
> --
>   Jonathan Daugherty
>   JanRain, Inc.

True, there's almost no difference on the OpenId side.  On the human side,
email is more familiar to a typical user (e.g., my Dad) who may not know
to try and strip off the "dad@" part of his email to use with OpenId.

Plus, why do we **not** want OpenId to work with email addresses (assuming
we maintain the principals of User Centric Identity if we use them?)





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