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		lallysingh on Jan 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1 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.

metageek on Jan 25, 2011 [–]

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.

lallysingh on Jan 25, 2011 | [–]

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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