Thank you for your feedback, Tom.<br><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This proposal won't work for OPs that offer both email and OpenID. For<br>instance, my AOL OpenID and AOL email are both based on my AOL ScreenName.
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<div>I believe that if you are indeed using an AOL OpenID, you are willing to give it up when you stop using that AOL screenname... If you don't, your AOL email may be used as your canonical ID.</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">#3 is a good idea. I do think that by default, OPs that offer OpenID and<br>Email should decouple the email/IM address from the OpenID to help
<br>shield users from spam and spim issues.</blockquote>
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<div>That is obviously correct regardless of canonical IDs (That's also why FreeYourID sucks). However, #3 is merely one reason why the actual idea might be a good one. #5 (suspiciously overlooked by those XRI evangelists) is the most important one:
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<div><font color="#550055">> 5. OpenID would remain decentralized.</font></div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Dmitry</div>
<div>=damnian</div></div>