Using email address as OpenID identifier

[Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten]

Does anyone have the time to write an email -> xrds discovery spec so  
we can formally ignore it? And so people can argue with their dns  
providers instead of on list?

http:// Joseph Holsten .com


On 02008:04:01, at 9:30CDT, Paul E. Jones wrote:

> Folks,
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> I’ve seen discussion here and there on the use of the e-mail  
> address as the OpenID identifier.  Perhaps this one says it best:
>
> http://www.majordojo.com/2007/02/what-openid-needs.php
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>
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> I share many of same opinions.  If OpenID is going to be  
> practically usable by the average person, we cannot require the  
> person to remember some very complex identifier.  When I signed up  
> for Yahoo’s OpenID service, it presented me with a hideously ugly  
> URL that looked similar to a base64-encoded string.  I could not  
> begin to tell you what it was.  Fortunately, Yahoo allowed me to  
> define my own, friendlier name.  Still, the ID is not one that the  
> average user will remember or get right.
>
>
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> While the e-mail address does not have to be the one’s ID, it can  
> certainly serve as an alias.  Suppose, for example, that the DNS  
> records at Yahoo contained the following entry:
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>
>
>   yahoo.com. IN NAPTR 100 10 "U" "OpenID2" "^(.+)@(.*)$!https:// 
> me.yahoo.com/\1!i"
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>
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> This would allow a Relaying Party to accept an e-mail address and  
> perform a simple transformation to get the “real” URL identifier.   
> Of course, this does not mean that the existing URL or XRI  
> identifiers are invalid, nor does it mean that the “email address”  
> has to be a real e-mail address.  But, this form would certainly be  
> far simpler for most people to deal use.
>
>
>
> If something like this has been discussed and rejected, what was  
> the reason?
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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