On 02/04/2008, Paul E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A solution that matches closer with what the user expects would be to > > map "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to a claimed ID of "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > The average user is not going to know what "mailto:"; is.
The mailto: transition would be something done internally by the RP. The RP could (and probably should) display email addresses without the "mailto:"; prefix to the user. This is similar to the way RPs store persistent XRIs as the user's claimed ID but are encouraged to display the reassignable XRI. > > For (2), I'd suggest a solution that maps the email address to either > > directly to an OpenID endpoint (using the claimed ID as local ID), or > > to an XRDS file. A DNS based solution seems fine here (either your > > NAPTR idea, or TXT records as suggested in replies to your post). > > > NAPTR queries and transformations are straight-forward. It's just a regular > expression transformation from something that looks like an e-mail address > to the real OpenID ID. > > But, again, I don't really care how it works. But, for the benefit of those > who are not so technically capable, I believe it's got to be super, super > trivial. NAPTR would work extremely well, I think, and would be fast. Any > OpenID OP could provide an e-mail style identifier and it would certainly be > a motivator for anybody providing e-mail service to also OpenID enable their > subscriber's e-mail addresses. I don't think there is a need to introduce an HTTP identity URL here. If you're going to use an email address as an identity, then use an email address as an identity. James. _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
