[OpenID] Relationship of OpenID URLs and e-mail addresses

[Brendan O'Connor]

It seems to me like this would be a way both to have email contact with 
people whom you know only by OpenID, and also whitelist-first email; 
your OpenID provider could simply hold all the email, then let through 
those you've previously agreed to talk to-- much like the twitter 
article (<http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2007/04/03/pull-messaging> 
for those of you who didn't see it the first time) spoke about.

I think this would be great, personally.

And yes, I think chat nicknames could go OpenID as well, for the same 
reason. People could find me on an arbitrary service without having to 
care which-- and yet could only *speak* to me with prior permission.

---Brendan O'Connor

Guido Sohne wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Hamish Allan <hamish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On a not entirely unrelated note, has anyone considered the use of
>> OpenIDs as email addresses?
>>
>> Imagine a service openidmail.com which offers email addresses based on
>> OpenIDs. I can immediately set up my mail client to connect to
>> smtp.openidmail.com and send email with a from: address of
>> openid.aol.com/me at openidmail.com and a to: address of
>> you.myopenid.com at openidmail.com. You can receive it by setting up your
>> mail client to receive mail from imap.openidmail.com. Authentication
>> can be handled using e.g., session cookies as passwords for TLS.
>> Spammers would presumably set up their own identity providers, which
>> could quickly be blacklisted.
>>
>> Has this already been discussed?
> 
> How is this a step forward to replicate email but with longer
> addresses? The user's email is not the same as the user's identity. It
> is very common, yes, and universal, yes, but it's not the identity, I
> think. What about chat nicknames? Should they go OpenID too?
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something ...
> 
> -- G.
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