So I'm one who would like to see the UX for a full "spectrum of clients"
be included in the charter. I think that many of the UX issues related
to redirects and SP-Initiated logins can be solved with more "active"
clients. I would like to see experiences that rely on more than
persistent cookies or HTML5 local storage as the mechanism to remember
user's preferences. Of course the UX for a user without an "active"
client should work and be as smooth as possible.
Thanks,
George
On 5/31/10 6:27 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
Mike Jones prepared the initial version of this charter, and I took
the liberty of renaming v.Next to 2.x, and made compatibility with 2.x
an explicit goal of this work.
I'm reluctant of the applicability of this work to active clients and
have subsequently removed this line:
· produce user experience guidelines for supporting for a spectrum of
clients, including passive clients per current usage, thin active
clients, and active clients with OP functionality,
Feedback welcome.
Chris
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*(a) **/Charter/**.*
*(i)* *WG name:* OpenID 2.x User Experience.
*(ii)* *Purpose:* Produce a user experience specification or family
of specifications for OpenID 2.x that address the limitations and
drawbacks present in the OpenID 2.0 that limit OpenID's applicability,
adoption, usability, privacy, and security. Specific goals are:
· produce user experience guidelines for less intrusive authentication
user experiences than full-page browser redirect,
· produce user experience guidelines for controlled and uncontrolled
release of attributes,
· produce user experience guidelines for use of identities and
attributes by non-browser applications,
· produce user experience guidelines for optimized protocol flows
combining authentication, attribute release, and resource authorization,
· produce user experience guidelines for use of OpenID on mobile devices,
· seamlessly integrate with and complement the other OpenID 2.x
specifications.
Compatibility with OpenID 2.x is an explicit goal for this work.
*(iii)* *Scope:* Produce a current generation OpenID user experience
specification or specifications, consistent with the purpose statement.
*(iv)* *Proposed List of Specifications*: OpenID 2.x User Experience
and possibly related specifications.
*(v)* *Anticipated audience or users of the work:* Implementers of
OpenID Providers, Relying Parties, Active Clients, and non-browser
applications utilizing OpenID.
*(vi)* *Language in which the WG will conduct business*: English.
*(vii)* *Method of work: *E-mail discussions on the working group
mailing list, working group conference calls, and face-to-face
meetings at the Internet Identity Workshop and OpenID summits.
*(viii)* *Basis for determining when the work of the WG is
completed:* Work will not be deemed to be complete until there is a
consensus that the resulting protocol specification or family of
specifications fulfills the working group goals. Additional proposed
changes beyond that initial consensus will be evaluated on the basis
of whether they increase or decrease consensus within the working
group. The work will be completed once it is apparent that maximal
consensus on the draft has been achieved, consistent with the purpose
and scope.
*(b) **/Background Information/**.*
*(i)* *Related work being done in other WGs or organizations*: Draft
User Interface (UI) Extension
<http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-User-Interface-Work-Group-Proposal>.
Kantara Universal Login Experience (ULX)
<http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ulx/>working group.
RPX product design <http://rpxnow.com>. Facebook Authentication
Guidelines <http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/>.
Google user authentication research
<http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin>.
*(ii)* *Proposers:*
Chris Messina, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> (chair)
Dick Hardt, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
/Additional proposers to be added here/
*(iii)* *Anticipated Contributions*: None.
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