Re: Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Atkins
Paul E. Jones wrote: Perhaps it is important to say, though, that I do not think it requires the e-mail providers to get on board with this (in my view) simpler notation. I could use an ID like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that should work, if myopenid.com would publish the appropriate NAPTR

Re: Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Atkins
Paul E. Jones wrote: I’ll give you that one: that’s certainly easier. But, does not cause some confusion? After all, one’s identity is not yahoo.com, but that is the identity provider. Perhaps the prompts around the Internet ought to Say “OpenID Provider:” instead? :-) I propose

Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-07 Thread McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
This would require defining an OpenID SRV record in DNS. Would make sense for someone to get this formally defined as part of IETF. Could kinda be done in the same way that Boeing is moving forward definition of XRI in LDAP.. -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:56:57

Re: Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-07 Thread Holger Baxmann
What about having an ENUM e164.org record holding not only the IP of an SIP-Broker, but the OpenID ID. Whatever format and syntax it might have. The appropriate IETF RFC 2916 E.164 number and DNS could provide not only mangling with eMail addresses but also with telephone numbers: this