Comments on: Email address as the universal identity http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/08/17/email-address-as-the-universal-identity/ Cloud Computing and SaaS for the Enterprise Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dmitry Sotnikov http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/08/17/email-address-as-the-universal-identity/#comment-353 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:01:39 +0000 http://cloudenterprise.info/?p=296#comment-353 Steve,

OpenID is the underlying technology in a way similar to SAML/WS-*/etc. – not what you prompt users for. 99.99% of users when prompted for their OpenID will probably freak out and panic. :)

However, this does not mean you cannot mask OpenID to appear to be email addresses. For example, Google has recently made their Google Apps Premium an OpenID provider and their paying customers can indeed use their Google IDs (which they think is their email addresses!) to access other online services.

So if by OpenID you mean the underlying technology, than sure this might well be effective. If you mean just prompting users for OpenID and expecting them to type in some kind of URLs – I do not see this happening.

Dmitry

]]> By: Steve http://cloudenterprise.info/2009/08/17/email-address-as-the-universal-identity/#comment-352 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:22:50 +0000 http://cloudenterprise.info/?p=296#comment-352 OpenID is already trying to do this as well. It provides more power over email addresses because you can associate certain information sharing rules with various sites and you can build you identity profile at a provider of your choice.

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