What bearing does the fact that Google and Yahoo chose shitty hard-to-remember OpenID URLs have to do with the overall fact that OpenID uses URLs for authentica

What bearing does the fact that Google and Yahoo chose shitty hard-to-remember OpenID URLs have to do with the overall fact that OpenID uses URLs for authentication? That’s like saying using email addresses for authentication is a terrible idea because mail administrators can assign really hard-to-remember email addresses. The solution is simple: set things up so they’re not hard to remember. Again, there is no reason why your OpenID login can’t be ‘name.my-open-id-provider.com’. I would be willing to bet Google and Yahoo made their OpenID URLs hard to remember because they already had single sign on products that they wanted in the limelight preferentially over OpenID. However, cursory support of OpenID made them both look like supporters of open standards even if their implementation (hard-to-remember URLs) doomed it to underuse.