<div dir="ltr">You can find out more information about EAUT and Emailtoid here:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://eaut.org/">http://eaut.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://emailtoid.net">http://emailtoid.net</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>The specification is available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/">http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We do hope to turn this into an extension to OpenID as it attempts to directly address the criticism about OpenID that people don&#39;t tend to think of themselves as &quot;URLs&quot; but instead identify themselves by &quot;email addresses&quot;. I wrote more about this here (for context):</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/22/announcing-emailtoid-mapping-email-addresses-to-openids/">http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/22/announcing-emailtoid-mapping-email-addresses-to-openids/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com">sakimura@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Formal answer is &quot;no&quot;.<br>
<br>
I think Vidoop will eventually propose to form a working group on this<br>
eventually, but that is only my guess.<br>
<br>
=nat<br>
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On 8/13/08, Arshad Khan &lt;<a href="mailto:arshad.khan@channel321.com">arshad.khan@channel321.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Does OpenID 2.0 support &#39;Email Address to URL Transformation (EAUT)?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; There is some info on this page of what EAUT is:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; <a href="http://blog.vidoop.com/archives/139" target="_blank">http://blog.vidoop.com/archives/139</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Has Vidoop developed this outside OpenID 2.0 framework?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Arshad<br>
&gt;<br>
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</div></div><font color="#888888">--<br>
Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
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