user@domain URNs, independent from OpenID spec

[Evan Martin]

On 7/5/05, Mario Salzer <mario at erphesfurt.de> wrote:
> I'm still the opinion that the general user-friendliness of a non-URL
> syntax far outweights the eventual confusion of just a few people.

This is the critical point.  More than "just a few people" don't
understand these things.  You're thinking about too narrow a scope of
users.

On LiveJournal we saw people trying to login with all sorts of
ridiculous things, like their AOL username or their AOL email address.
 I mention AOL only because it's representative of casual users --
this sort of confusion exists everywhere, not just on AOL.

I think Jabber got this wrong, too.  It's too late to disassociate "@"
from email.