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This is getting a bit off topic, but:

Changing addresses can be dealt with just as it is today: Let logged in users add additional email addresses to their accounts.

Other people getting your old email address is a bit worse. The easy solution is for providers to not reuse names. You could extend the protocol with a version token, so a provider could say that new bob is different from old bob, and shouldn't be able to log in to old bob's account.



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