<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:14 AM, David Recordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drecordon@sixapart.com">drecordon@sixapart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Can you use POBox.com with <a href="mailto:david@yahoo.com" target="_blank">david@yahoo.com</a>? For the added complexity I just don't think it's worth it considering you already can't delegate your email. If you control the domain then you can choose your Provider, otherwise you're at the mercy of who controls the domain. Don't like it, then don't use your Yahoo account as your OpenID. IMHO.<div>
<br></div><font color="#888888"><div>--David</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br>Agreed that if we're at the mercy of the person who controls the domain (in the example above, <a href="http://yahoo.com">yahoo.com</a>). However, if we don't give domain-owners like Yahoo.com a decent path (a spec?) to allow their users to tie their <a href="http://yahoo.com">yahoo.com</a> (or whatever domain you prefer) email address to an OpenID URL in a different domain, then we're ensuring a future that says email addresses will only be usable if you use the OP of the domain owner. That doesn't feel very user-centric. <br>
<br>We should at least provide a path for domain owners to give freedom to their users, because whatever we come up with here wrt to email addresses will likely be around for a good long time.<br><br><br><br></div></div>