[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research
Dick Hardt
dick.hardt at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 05:10:50 UTC 2008
On 14-Oct-08, at 2:10 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:48 , Allen Tom wrote:
>
>> I do think that URL based identifiers are ideal, however it seems
>> that RPs may want an even lighter weight way to start using OpenID,
>> so defining a use case for Email Verification could be a way to
>> transition RPs to OpenID.
>
> I'd really love to have a general-purpose e-mail address to HTTP URL
> mapping scheme. [but read on]
>
> That would:
> - let users use e-mail addresses in all places of HTTP OpenIDs
> - let anybody type the e-mail address printed on my business card
> into a browser address field, and miraculously my home page came up.
>
> It would also keep one of the (the biggest?) reasons for having URLs
> in the first place as identifiers for people, which is that they can
> participate in a peer protocol with sites. (Imagine if companies
> only had e-mail addresses, and no HTTP sites)
>
> Big downside: browser support needed.
>
> It could be a as simple as resolving an e-mail address to an XRDS
> file, which contains a "home page" service entry.
>
> Am I just dreaming?
Smoking crack. ;-)
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