[OpenID] A Case for OpenEmailID

[SitG Admin]

>In the Japan and US markets at least, today's hub-spoke portal 
>business models don't want RPs to be able to easily flit between 
>OPs, at the user's whim. They want each and every user transaction 
>intermediated by policy decisions enacted by the OPs, where those 
>decision are remotely and automatically enforced by dumbed down, 
>highly captive RPs.

They want power. Power that is currently in the hands of the RP's (or 
the E-mail providers, if you wish). Which only makes sense, since it 
is those RP's which are (directly) involved with the user in their 
transactions.

Of course, that hub-spoke model isn't the user-centric model which 
*does* empower users to easily flit between OP's, at each user's whim.

-Shade