[PROPOSAL] Handle "http://user at example.com" Style Identifiers

[Recordon, David]

I'm not actually proposing the IdP make an assertion about
user at example.com.  It would only be used during the discovery phase and
then an assertion for a URL be returned.

--David 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Daugherty [mailto:cygnus at janrain.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:57 PM
To: George Fletcher
Cc: Recordon, David; specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Handle "http://user@example.com" Style
Identifiers

# It might create some confusion depending on the audience.  For the #
audience that doesn't run their own web server, or have their own #
blog, it might be confusing to enter a URI.

By confusion, I mean entering something that looks like an email but
probably isn't, and trying to figure out just what the relationship
between email-looking things and email addresses really is.  And seeing
an RP render an email-like thing with "http://" on the front and "/" on
the end.  The biggest subset of our prospective audience is the one that
is not going to readily understand this, and that is going to create a
lot of confusion.

--
  Jonathan Daugherty
  JanRain, Inc.