(The full story is posted at
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/01/addressing-open.html but this
contains the technical parts of the post).
This proposal adds Email Discovery allowing users to use their email address as
an OpenID.
...
We need to map between the email to the OpenID
This is the function of the existing DNS SRV record.
_openid.example.com SRV 1 1 1 1 openid1.example.com
The Internet has an architecture already. Use it, don't try to reinvent it.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Eran Hammer-Lahav
Sent: Thu 03/01/2008
actually, NAPTR RR's would be a better fit, as the unique-part of an
openID may be in the local-path part of a URI, not the hostname... of
course, if a users openID changes, so too might their underlying DNS
name, and then DNS won't help you at all there. XRI is better
situated to solve
Phillip, what do you mean by Until the IPR commitments necessary to allow
that change are made there is no standard. The OASIS XRI TC has operated
under a royalty-free IPR policy since the day it was formed (see the
language in the charter,
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/charter.php),
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
(The full story is posted at
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/01/addressing-open.html
but this contains the technical parts of the post).
This proposal adds Email Discovery allowing users to use their email
address as an
On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Trevor Johns wrote:
Erin,
While it sounds nice at first glance, there's are a number of problems
I see with this:
Oh, and one more I thought up right after I hit send:
7. If their email provider is willing to set up an OP they'd probably
also be willing to
