Input from email providers?

[Brian Ellin]

Has anyone started discussions with large email providers like yahoo,
hotmail, aol, gmail, msn, etc? They are all looking for ways to
reduce spam, and enabling the use of email based login may not align
with that goal. Just curious to see if there has been any input from
those folks.

Brian Ellin

[David Fuelling]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Brian Ellin <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone started discussions with large email providers like yahoo,
hotmail, aol, gmail, msn, etc?  

Not yet, but this is a great idea (though I don't have any contacts in any).

They are all looking for ways to
reduce spam, and enabling the use of email based login may not align
with that goal.  Just curious to see if there has been any input from
those folks.

I'd be curious to hear any feedback, though I haven't encountered a website yet that doesn't ask for my email address (OpenID-enabled or otherwise -- plus, I almost always provide it when asked since if I'm creating an account, I want them to be able to communicate with me).  So, I don't see EAUT being problematic from the perspective of login wrt spam.

Now, if people start advertising their email address publicly on websites because that's their "OpenID", then I think spam would increase.  That's why RP's should be using the actual OpenID URL or a site-local username for public facing pages.

My $0.02 -- I'm always willing to hear more on this subject.