[OpenID] OpenID based on email addresses... Just Works!

[David Fuelling]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I think this general approach with the addition of knowing it is an
> email, doing directed identity, and passing the email as OpenID.identity is
> a good one. I really prefer to find a simple solution that doesn't involve
> running a mapping service or mucking with DNS.
>

I agree with your sentiment, but treating "me at example.com" as just "
http://example.com" in every instance precludes me ever using a different
Identity Provider that is not "example.com", assuming I like example.com's
email service.

For example, david at yahoo.com will always be tied to using Yahoo.com as an
OP.  At least with a mapping service, Yahoo.com could offer it's users the
ability to login with a Yahoo.com email address, but utilize a different
company (e.g., myopenid.com) as their OpenID Provider (all configured from a
Yahoo.com UI)
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