Using email address as OpenID identifier

[Dick Hardt]

On 1-Apr-08, at 11:15 PM, Paul E. Jones wrote:

> Dick,
>
> I’ll give you that one: that’s certainly easier.  But, does not  
> cause some confusion?  After all, one’s identity is not yahoo.com,  
> but that is the identity provider.  Perhaps the prompts around the  
> Internet ought to Say “OpenID Provider:” instead? :-)

:-) ... that label would be more accurate. There is lots of work to be  
done to make OpenID simpler for users. I think that what will be easy  
for users is something provided by the browser that lets the user  
click to initiate a login or registration. No typing is better then  
any typing! Back when we started working on the protocols we could not  
expect this kind of functionality to be in the browsers. Now that  
awareness is higher, having it built into the browser is feasible. I  
of course am biased given the work we have done with Sxipper http://sxipper.com 
  :)

>
> Presently, this variant works form some providers, but not most.  I  
> assume it’s due to the fact they’re not fully compliant with the  
> spec yet? Or, is there some confusion as to how this ought to work?

I don't think an OP is not OpenID 2.0 compliant if it does not take  
the OP as an identifier -- but I would have to reread to the spec to  
make sure.

-- Dick



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