[OpenID] FW: PROPOSAL: An Extension to transform an EMail Address to an OpenId URL

Robert Yates robyates70 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 03:22:12 UTC 2007


On 2/9/07, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:

 > I appreciate any and all feedback!

For what it's worth I think that this is excellent. A couple of suggestions:

1) You probably should take a look at the URI Template spec [1].
These guys have done a lot of the work for you. The spec is still in
active development and has been blogged about by the author [2], I
think that they are about to release a new version with some updates.

2) Why map the e-mail address to an openid url, which then has to be
further resolved to a Yadis document?  Why not, instead, map straight
to a yadis doc and make e-mails full fledged openids.  An openid is
nothing more than a URI that can be resolved to a Yadis doc.
mailto:robyates70 at gmail.com is a perfectly valid URI and you have
demonstrated a pretty simple way to map it to a yadis doc.

Rob

[1]http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-00.txt
[2]http://bitworking.org/news/URI_Templates



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