[OpenID] Proving your OpenID to foreign domain

[Luke Shepard]

The username or email of a given account is considered profile information, and it can be requested with an extension. The two extensions popularly used for this are Attribute Exchange (AX) and Simple Registration (SREG).

Google, for example, will return the email address of a Gmail user, so you can use that to check what the user gave you. I'm not sure what level of support the other providers have for AX, but that's a good starting point.


On 9/8/09 11:16 AM, "Yonas ." <googelly.eyes at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for a way that a YouTube/MySpace/etc user can prove to me
that they own that account.

OpenID will give me a URL that represents that user, but not contain
the actual username. Is this being worked on or looked into?

I understand why the URL is not required to be the username, but I
believe OpenID should provide a simple way of saying, "You requested
proof of ownership for 'john.doe at youtube.com', and yes, the user is
the owner".

Cheers,
Yonas
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