This is what <a href="http://emailtoid.net">emailtoid.net</a> is for and why we set it up (we figured running code was more powerful than just talking about this idea, so we built it). (Emailtoid is a play on "Email to ID").<div>
<br></div><div>The spec for this service is available at <a href="http://eaut.org">eaut.org</a> and is essentially an implementation of David Fuelling's spec.</div><div><br></div><div>Long term this service was meant to fade out if our efforts to popularize the directed-identity-driven email resolution flow became popularized but clearly there's room for more discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I should also point out that there's already an FAQ on this topic:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openid.net/Debating-Emails-as-1st-Class-or-2nd-Class-Citizens">http://wiki.openid.net/Debating-Emails-as-1st-Class-or-2nd-Class-Citizens</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Nicol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am for an approach of leaving all systems as they are now and adding<br>
a convention, provided by some openID identity service, that maps<br>
e-mail addresses into openID urls, and then trying to popularize that<br>
service, or the various services conforming to the to-be-proposed<br>
convention, so that when someone types <a href="mailto:joe@example.com">joe@example.com</a> into the<br>
openID slot the identity widget offers joe a choice of<br>
<a href="http://smtp.openid.tipjar.com/example.com/joe" target="_blank">http://smtp.openid.tipjar.com/example.com/joe</a> and a few other similar<br>
services suggesting the rewritten versions.<br>
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