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

[David Fuelling]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:14 AM, David Recordon <drecordon at sixapart.com>wrote:

> Can you use POBox.com with david at yahoo.com?  For the added complexity I
> just don't think it's worth it considering you already can't delegate your
> email.  If you control the domain then you can choose your Provider,
> otherwise you're at the mercy of who controls the domain.  Don't like it,
> then don't use your Yahoo account as your OpenID.  IMHO.
> --David
>

Agreed that if we're at the mercy of the person who controls the domain (in
the example above, yahoo.com).  However, if we don't give domain-owners like
Yahoo.com a decent path (a spec?) to allow their users to tie their
yahoo.com (or whatever domain you prefer) email address to an OpenID URL in
a different domain, then we're ensuring a future that says email addresses
will only be usable if you use the OP of the domain owner.  That doesn't
feel very user-centric.

We should at least provide a path for domain owners to give freedom to their
users, because whatever we come up with here wrt to email addresses will
likely be around for a good long time.
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