Proposal for Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

Mark Baker distobj at acm.org
Mon Mar 5 06:13:23 UTC 2007


On 3/3/07, Dmitry Shechtman <damnian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I own markbaker.ca., and publish http URIs in that namespace.  I might
> > (I don't) also have email addresses there, say mark at markbaker.ca.  If
> > a public standard were crafted which defined a mapping for
> > mailto:mark at markbaker.ca to something under http://markbaker.ca (say,
> > http://markbaker.ca/~mark), then by virtue of minting a new
> > markbaker.ca email address, the corresponding http URI is now
> > effectively reserved, and unavailable for me to use as anything other
> > than an alias.
>
> Yadis/OpenID discovery via SMTP would allow you to resolve mark at markbaker.ca
> to anything (in fact, it doesn't have to be something under
> http://markbaker.ca!). It would be convenient to tie mark at makrbaker.ca to
> http://markbaker.ca/~mark, but that's totally up to the domain owner. Hence
> zero squatting.

Interesting, but I was responding to Gabe's proposal to define a
mapping between schemes.

Mark.
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