[OT] Re: User @ domain.tld as ID (Once again)

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Thu Nov 3 10:16:05 PST 2005


Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> OpenID is young and there's time for a version 2, there'd need to be one
> anyway IMHO to solve things like the single sign-out problem (which isn't
> hard to fix, but again needs a protocol revision). Any such new
> specification could easily include a couple of paragraphs on mapping email
> addresses to URLs. There's no need for a 2 paragraph extra spec. That's
> just shoving the issue under the rug.
> 

OpenID is irrelevant.

With YADIS atop it, it makes no difference what kind of identifier
OpenID uses because it's hidden behind the layer of abstraction provided
by YADIS.



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