Using email address as OpenID identifier

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Mon Apr 7 17:58:31 UTC 2008


Paul E. Jones wrote:
>  
> 
> 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? :-)
> 

I propose that the caption be "Whatever your OpenID provider told you to 
enter: ".

(I joke, of course. Mostly.)




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