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A comment on 37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1. Parent comment

Re:37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1 by lallysingh on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @11:43AM (#2139693)
I don't know why this couldn't be done via the normal RFC process. I can imagine a version of this done with something based (very roughly) on DNS.
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Re:37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1 by metageek on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:35PM (#2140730)
Oh, yeah. Tie it to email addresses; let any domain publish an SRV record pointing to its ID server. Then all you have to know is your email address, not your OpenID URL.
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Re:37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1 by lallysingh on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:51PM (#2140800)
Yeah, or at least an email-looking identifier. I don't think we need to require it to actually receive email -- but it's a fair default.
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