<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 8-Aug-08, at 8:19 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br>It seems to me that any extension doing this sort of thing (so consider this a wishlist item for IDIB) should accept an XRI or URI that the user is already using as his/her identifier, perform discovery on that, and read the XRDS file and set up all the Providers automatically.</div></blockquote><br></div>Millions of people have an OpenID today, they just don't know it. <div><br></div><div>Having the extension detect that the site I am on could be an OP would be more interesting.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that knowledge of the identifier is really not critical to the protocol -- knowledge of your OP is.</div><div><br></div><div>The user not needing to know their identifier(s) can dramaticly simply the user experience, which is another conclusion to be drawn from Tom Calthrop's post on ht<a href="http://www.barnraiser.org/">tp://www.barnraiser.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Dick</div></body></html>