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

[Kaliya Hamlin]

For starters please don't use Comic Sans in professional  
correspondence. it is very hard to read (or take seriously)  http:// 
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On Oct 22, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Praveen Alavilli wrote:
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> It's more of a problem with how we can accept 3rd party OpenId  
> users at AOL (we as an RP). Obviously for simple use cases like  
> leaving comments on blogs it wouldn't really matter as long as the  
> user is identified by someone (and someone doing rate limiting or  
> something else to prevent spamming - otherwise I still can't see  
> how it reduces spam anyway) - but when we want to take it to the  
> next level - provide more services to these users (photos/calendar/ 
> etc.. ) we want to limit it to only a few IDPs whom we trust. (due  
> to both security and business reasons).

This doesn't really work in the model.  The goal is to let anyone set  
up their own OpenID and that basically across the OpenID universe it  
works.  You limiting it to only like verisign or other 'big' IdP's is  
not really part of the vision of what we are trying to build.   
Obviously behind this whole network needs to be reputation for IdPs  
and individual OpenID addresses.

> So this is the problem we are trying to figure out how we can  
> message the users that we support OpenIds from certain providers  
> (say Verisign PIP) but not from all.

This is one way to approach it and I hope you don't do it this way  
because it breaks what OpenID is about.
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> Another area where we want some more clarification (if it already  
> exists) or support is about how we can have a persistent handler  
> (apart from URI) for a given user so it would help in cases when a  
> user's account gets reclaimed by someone else.

ahh...that is where further reading of what i-names and i-numbers are  
about would help.  Because there is another level of indirection  
built in, when an i-name is reassigned the i-number below it is  
not.   This helps users not have the 'reclaiming by someone else  
problem' when depending on URLs.

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