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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The username or email of a given account is considered profile information, and it can be requested with an extension. The two extensions popularly used for this are Attribute Exchange (AX) and Simple Registration (SREG).<BR>
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Google, for example, will return the email address of a Gmail user, so you can use that to check what the user gave you. I’m not sure what level of support the other providers have for AX, but that’s a good starting point.<BR>
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On 9/8/09 11:16 AM, "Yonas ." <<a href="googelly.eyes@gmail.com">googelly.eyes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi,<BR>
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I'm looking for a way that a YouTube/MySpace/etc user can prove to me<BR>
that they own that account.<BR>
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OpenID will give me a URL that represents that user, but not contain<BR>
the actual username. Is this being worked on or looked into?<BR>
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I understand why the URL is not required to be the username, but I<BR>
believe OpenID should provide a simple way of saying, "You requested<BR>
proof of ownership for <a href="'john.doe@youtube.com">'john.doe@youtube.com</a>', and yes, the user is<BR>
the owner".<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Yonas<BR>
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