[OpenID] The Various Methods For "user at domain.com" Style Identifiers

[Andrew Arnott]

This comes up periodically.  The last time it did, it ended with: "it
already works, via directed identity."  If an email address domain name
supports directed identity, then a user can type his/her own email address,
and it (becoming equivalent to just the domain name of that email address)
redirects the user to the OP, where the identifier can be decided on and the
assertion sent back to the RP.
--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
your right to say it." - Voltaire


On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am for an approach of leaving all systems as they are now and adding
> a convention, provided by some openID identity service, that maps
> e-mail addresses into openID urls, and then trying to popularize that
> service, or the various services conforming to the to-be-proposed
> convention,  so that when someone types joe at example.com into the
> openID slot the identity widget offers joe a choice of
> http://smtp.openid.tipjar.com/example.com/joe and a few other similar
> services suggesting the rewritten versions.
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