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.
No URLs, no XRIs. 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. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Allen Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Using the email address as the first class identifier is a good idea, so > +10000 for using email address as the one true identifier. I also like how > they have an interim solution for users whose email provider doesn't support > BrowserID. > > An "EmailID" proposal might be viable, but I think BrowserID has some > major issues: > > 1) Doesn't work with rich client apps (desktop, mobile, tablet) when > there's no browser. > > 2) No mechanism to enable RPs to call APIs on behalf of the authenticated > user. Almost all RPs will want more than just the user's email address - > they'll want rich profile data, the ability to write to activity streams, > sharing APIs, location data, etc. > > I don't see how BrowserID provides any advantages over something like > OpenID Connect where Email Address is the identifier. > > Allen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Dick Hardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes. >> >> http://dickhardt.org/2011/07/browserid/ >> >> :) >> >> On 2011-07-16, at 8:25 AM, David Recordon wrote: >> >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > >> http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-differs-from-openid >> > _______________________________________________ >> > specs mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> specs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs >> > > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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