[OpenID] Google+ and Unique Identifiers -- different again?

[Peter Watkins]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 08:48:29PM -0700, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> It seems Google has changed their unique identifiers for people again. 
> 
> Apparently I'm now:
> 	https://plus.google.com/104555285104903729468
> as opposed to
> 	http://profiles.google.com/Johannes.Ernst
> and so many other variations over the years.

Someone from Google, please chime in!

I run an RP site and Google is the most popular OP for the the
users who choose to use OpenID instead of setting up "local" accounts,
so this could be a significant problem for us. Most of our Google
users get those ugly random per-RP identifiers, but a fair number
have "profiles" identifiers. So even if this only affects "profiles"
identifiers, a change like this is going to deny Google users access
to the resources to which they are entitled.

-Peter