Email Address to URL Transformation

[David Recordon]

Hey Paul,
Check out Web Finger (http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/).  They're
tackling all of the discovery bits.

--David

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Paul E. Jones <paulej at packetizer.com>wrote:

>  Folks,
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> I had asked about this a couple of years ago and I noted that a few others
> have also inquired about it.
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> What I had proposed before was a translation using NAPTR records in DNS.
> For example, for my own ID (http://openid.packetizer.com/paulej) would be
> translated using the NAPTR record as shown below:
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> @ IN NAPTR 100 10 "u" "E2U+OpenID" "!^(.+)@packetizer.com$!
> http://openid.packetizer.com/\\1!i" .
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> I actually put this record into the DNS for packetizer.com, so you can see
> it.  This does a simple translation from an email address style to a URL.
> It has the proposed service type “E2U+OpenID”.  Using NAPTR records and
> email addresses would be entirely optional, of course: some users may not
> have the same OP as the entity providing email service.  But, I think this
> would be very useful for those who do, including any enterprises that might
> want to use OpenID internally.
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> What was the final outcome of this or is it still under discussion?
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> Paul
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> *From:* specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] *On
> Behalf Of *David Recordon
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:51 PM
> *To:* arshad.khan at channel321.com
> *Cc:* specs at openid.net
> *Subject:* Re: Email Address to URL Transformation
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> Hey Arshad,
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> This is now something we're talking about supporting in OpenID
> Authentication 2.1 though it isn't yet clear whether it will support a
> transformation technique like EAUT or something else.
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> --David
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> On Aug 12, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Arshad Khan wrote:
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>   Does OpenID 2.0 support ‘Email Address to URL Transformation (EAUT)?
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> There is some info on this page of what EAUT is:
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> http://blog.vidoop.com/archives/139
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> Has Vidoop developed this outside OpenID 2.0 framework?
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> Thanks.
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> Arshad
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