Yeah, I totally agree - I was referring to a hypothetical protocol that's similar to OpenID Connect, but uses email addresses as the true identifier.
I don't see how BrowserID would be better than a version of OpenID Connect that only uses email addresses as the one true identifier. Allen On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > >
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