[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

Eric Norman ejnorman at doit.wisc.edu
Tue Oct 14 06:11:37 UTC 2008


On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Chris Messina wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu> 
> wrote:
>>  2)  The user's IdP is not necessarily associated with their email
>>  provider.  Specifically, some new students don't care to use a
>>  university-issued email account ...

> Nothing about including email identifiers as valid OpenID identifiers 
> requires you that you use email as your primary identifier. It simply 
> enables the use of email addresses for signing in to services. ...

So if a login box solicits something called "Email address",
what would you expect a student to supply in the scenario Nate
mentioned?

Eric Norman






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