[OpenID] Emails and IIW

[Breno de Medeiros]

+1 for the session. I would like to attend.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> David Recordon wrote:
>> Figuring that we should certainly have a working session at IIW around
>> using email address style identifiers with OpenID.  I'm happy to
>> "lead" it (in terms of making sure it gets up on the board at a sane
>> time).  I'll also work on compiling a wiki page where we can try to
>> agree on the problem, list assumptions, questions, approaches, etc
>> that I can tease out of the ongoing discussion.
>>
>
> Yes, this sounds like a great idea, though I think we should try to
> whittle this down to a few key issues beforehand so that the session
> doesn't just turn into a big brawl.
>
> Some current debates that spring to mind are:
>  * Should openid.identity be a mailto: URL, or an http: or https: URL
> derived from the email address somehow?
>  * Should discovery from DNS be supported?
>  * Do we want to make a general email-to-URL mapping solution, or
> something specific to OpenID?
>
> I'm thinking that the best way to proceed with this would be to make a
> matrix similar to what we did with identifier recycling to try to hash
> out both the pros and cons of each possibility for each decision.
>
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