Wiki page: Attempting to document the "Email Address as OpenId" debate.

[Gavin Baumanis]

Hi everyone,

I am certainly not an expert by any means... so if I am completely off the track - please feel free to let me know :)

Anyway, why cant we just implement our own URI scheme? Would this not address everyone's concerns?
I admit to having absolutely no idea what's involved in "publishing" a new scheme and so it may well be "out of reach" to us...but thought it worth asking the question none the less.

Gavin Baumanis
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia.

>>> On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 03:04, in message
<20070214160404.GA17254 at nic.fr>, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:21:42PM +0100,
>  Claus Färber <gmane at faerber.muc.de> wrote 
>  a message of 38 lines which said:
> 
>> | For example, user at EXAMPLE.COM could be a RADIUS login, a Kerberos
>> | principal and a Yadis ID/OpenID but not an email address.
>> 
>> There's no technical reason an identifier using the user at DOMAIN format 
>> has to be a valid email address.
> 
> A real-world example is NAI (Network Access Identifiers) in RFC 4282.
> 
> Mine is bortzmeyer at net2.nerim.nerim. Certainly not an email address.
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