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

[Steven Livingstone]

For a start I would just be happy if i could remember a single open id address and that allows me to choose what email or chat id or whatever i want to use for tha context - without me having to type them all.
 
I imagine a scenario where i have a person connection with person A and a business connection with person B and once i have entered their open id and retrieved the email they wish me to use to contact them I can link that to my open id and the email address i wish to use to send to them. This can be remembered and even processed by an aware email client.
Using Windows Live to send this email i can even see how this could work really well!
 
steven
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> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:42:08 -0400> From: openid at ussjoin.com> To: guido at sohne.net> CC: general at openid.net> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Relationship of OpenID URLs and e-mail addresses> > 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.> > _______________________________________________> > general mailing list> > general at openid.net> > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general> > > _______________________________________________> general mailing list> general at openid.net> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
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