title: EAUT, yay!
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2008/07/eaut-yay/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 420
date: 2008/07/23 11:02:14
created_gmt: 2008/07/23 16:02:14
comment_status: open
slug: eaut-yay

One of the big problems when trying to convince people about [OpenID](http://openid.net/) is the fact that your identifier is an URL. Which I find totally cool, but other people seem to think that users don't have enough capacity to understand that they can use some other string instead of just using an e-mail address :? .

[Brad Fitzpatrick was clever enough to realize it is possible to use an email address as an OpenID identifier](http://brad.livejournal.com/2357444.html), with some XRDS magic :) .

And now after some months we have **[Email Address to URL Translation (EAUT)](http://eaut.org/)**.

You can already use it, even if your e-mail provider haven't implemented the [EAUT protocol](http://eaut.org/specs/1.0/) via [EmailToID](http://emailtoid.net/) :) .

![Email Address to URL Translation](https://bm.isgeek.net/49/e8/026b767d5206154fa1089002152235db1ca943c2ff84bf583e638263e90b.jpg)