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

[Randy Smith]

On 4/4/07, Hamish Allan <hamish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > It's not really clear how direct person-to-person messaging would work,
> > though. My draft protocol only allows for person-to-person-via-website
>
> As far as I can tell, that's a side-effect of a properly decentralised
> identification system. Who stores the messages, if not a third party?
> Even if the third party is actually the OP of the recipient.
>
> Thinking about it some more, I can't use openidmail.com completely
> transparently with my existing mail client, because at the very least
> I would have to ask openidmail.com what TLS password I should use. So
> it makes sense for my OP to spool my mail for me. What's key for me is
> that whatever email address they provide for me (be it
> username at example.com or openid.example.com/username at whatever) requires
> identification. In other words, it's an email address whose primary
> whitelist rule is "allow only senders with OpenIDs".
>

I've been thinking about some of these things myself. My (somewhat
rambling) thoughts are posted at
http://perlstalker.blogspot.com/2007/03/mail-server-registries-and-foreign.html.

-- 
Randy Smith
http://vuser.org/
http://perlstalker.vuser.org/