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. <div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Allen<br><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hallam@gmail.com">hallam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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.<br>
<br><div>No URLs, no XRIs. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>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. </div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></div>
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