[OpenID] Emails and IIW

[Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL)]

Please stream it! :-)

Besides that looking forward to your findings!

-- Christian





On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com> wrote:
> +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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