[OpenID] OpenID Uri versus Email addresses

George Fletcher gffletch at aol.com
Tue Aug 5 14:04:43 UTC 2008


Very interesting. In addition, you can improve Option 2 by using the 
"EAUT: Email to URL Transform" spec (draft).
   http://groups.google.com/group/eaut?hl=en

This will give you greater coverage in converting email addresses to 
valid OpenIDs.

Thanks,
George

tom wrote:
> OpenID Uri versus Email addresses -> Oh no I hear you cringe; not that 
> old discussion again;)
>
> After six months of usability testing on youth in Sweden I am happy to 
> publish the first in a series of OpenID usability reports, the first 
> being about the OpenID URis versus the email address and how we dealt 
> with the issue.
>
> Blog at http://www.barnraiser.org/
>
> Thought some of you may find it useful.
>
> As always, comments welcome.
>
> tom
>
>   



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