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

[Chris Messina]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Surely a) EAUT doesn't specify what service is used and b) the use of
>>> a centralized service is entirely optional.
>>
>> Correct: the final version of the spec should not specify a central
>> fallback service. I also think the use of a fallback resolver should
>> be removed from the spec now that it appears that Google and Yahoo
>> (and perhaps other large email providers) will be willing to support
>> email address to OpenID mappings for their members.
>
> ?? Am I missing something? The spec I'm looking at
> (http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/) doesn't seem to mention a fallback
> resolver.

Ok, good. I was pretty sure that the EAUT spec didn't mention/require
a fallback, but in practice we were using one at the time (again the
demonstrate the concept).

Chris

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