Proposal for Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

[Dmitry Shechtman]

> I own markbaker.ca., and publish http URIs in that namespace.  I might
> (I don't) also have email addresses there, say mark at markbaker.ca.  If
> a public standard were crafted which defined a mapping for
> mailto:mark at markbaker.ca to something under http://markbaker.ca (say,
> http://markbaker.ca/~mark), then by virtue of minting a new
> markbaker.ca email address, the corresponding http URI is now
> effectively reserved, and unavailable for me to use as anything other
> than an alias.

Yadis/OpenID discovery via SMTP would allow you to resolve mark at markbaker.ca
to anything (in fact, it doesn't have to be something under
http://markbaker.ca!). It would be convenient to tie mark at makrbaker.ca to
http://markbaker.ca/~mark, but that's totally up to the domain owner. Hence
zero squatting.


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian