[OpenID] OpenID based on email addresses... Just Works!

[Chris Messina]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Steven Livingstone-Perez
<weblivz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> How does OpenID using anything as your primary identifier work if youwant
> to change it?
>
>
> Btw, just to update on this fwiw. There is currently a feature request in
> stackoverflow.com [1] to allow changing of your OpenID provider - it is
> actually the highest requested feature update (and is planned for
> implementation), so seems like the users want this.

It seems to me like this is just a matter of popularizing the idea of
multiple identifier associations per account, just as you do when you
associate multiple email addresses with an account (say, on Plaxo,
Dopplr and elsewhere).

Ma.gnolia currently provides you the ability to associate multiple
identifiers with your account, allowing you to use any of them to sign
in.

Since we're moving to a model of remote authentication, we really do
need to make sure that, apart from using XRDS to point to multiple OPs
in the case that one goes down, associating more than one identifier
per RP is also something that could or will be of value (especially if
you initially sign up to a service with a "throw-away" OpenID for
testing).

Chris

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