Mozilla BrowserID

[Dick Hardt]

On 2011-07-20, at 8:47 PM, Allen Tom wrote:

> That's why I like how BroswerID uses the email address as the identifier - if the user's email provider was the IdP, then we'd be able to scale past more than one IdP. 

You will need to elaborate on that so that I understand where the extra IdP comes from.

> RPs that let users login with their email address should have a relatively straightforward way to integrate their legacy user account system with an email-based identity system. 

Completely agree. There is very low impedance in adding the support, and both an email/password and email-based-protocol can happily co-exist in the same user DB.

-- Dick
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