Mozilla BrowserID

[Allen Tom]

Yeah, I totally agree - I was referring to a hypothetical protocol that's
similar to OpenID Connect, but uses email addresses as the true identifier.

I don't see how BrowserID would be better than a version of OpenID Connect
that only uses email addresses as the one true identifier.

Allen


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is an advantage to throwing out the bad identifiers, It allows the
> user interface to be made a lot simpler as anything not an email address is
> wrong.
>
> No URLs, no XRIs.
>
>
> As for what to do if the email provider does not provide BrowserID, I don't
> think it is a problem, I would probably separate the accounts in any case.
>
>
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