[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Tue Oct 14 22:51:04 UTC 2008


Johannes Ernst wrote:
> 
> What about -- instead of "merely" figuring out how to use e-mail 
> addresses for OpenID and friends -- we treated an e-mail address as a 
> form of HTTP address all across the web?
> 
> This means: all e-mail addresses become REST-ful. E.g. you can type them 
> into your browser and, at the minimum, they support a redirect to the 
> "real" page.
> 

Aside from the need to get browsers to implement it -- which is a 
political problem rather than a technical one -- I don't see how this 
use case is different to any other email-to-URL mapping use-case.

Can you elaborate?




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