[OpenID] Proposal for email address in URL path as a valid OpenID

[David Recordon]

Hey Santosh,
You should check out http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol 
  as it seems to be the approach many people are liking for  
discovering an XRD document from an email address. Obviously once we  
get to XRD, it's easy to list an OpenID Provider.  Additionally, while  
username@ is allowed before the domain, the @ character is not allowed  
as part of the URL path.

--David

On May 6, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:

>
> Consider this
> myopenid.com/abc at def.com
> This is a valid url. I think this can be accepted as a valid OpenID
> according to the spec.
>
> If we are going to accept email addresses as valid OpenID's then  
> url's in
> the above form have a role to play.
>
> With just an email address the onus on discovery rests with the email
> provider.
>
> However allowing url's in the above form will give the user an  
> option for
> using other providers for discovery. And he needs to do this only  
> once.
> Responsibilty will rest with the RP to remember this the next time  
> he comes
> around.
> Seeing an email address the RP has to split it into two parts and  
> perform
> discovery.
>
> What do you think?
>
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