Just a note: Proprietary UX in the IdP or browser can be a consistent experience even if different users get different experiences.
-- John Panzer / Google [email protected] / abstractioneer.org <http://www.abstractioneer.org/> / @jpanzer On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Nate Klingenstein <[email protected]>wrote: > Shade'n'others, > > Research performed on federated identity at Cardiff University, supported > by JISC, has suggested the opposite. Users just wanted a consistent > experience every time, and didn't enormously care what that experience > happens to be. So far as I'm aware, the analysis didn't include the NASCAR > approach being used by OpenID parties as an option, because it simply > doesn't scale for us with IdP's numbering in the 1000's. > > > http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/media/documents/jisc_collections/study-v1.0.pdf > > I'm thus a supporter of the ULX work being done in Kantara, and although > I'd Really Really prefer that the OpenID community be participants in the > work that's already ongoing and yielding good results, there are probably > advantages to any interface working group here too. > > Take care, > Nate. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "SitG Admin" <[email protected]> > To: "Peter Watkins" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:02:55 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: XAuth critiques > > >> This would certainly be a poor UI. I can imagine better ones, but more > to > >> the point, the marketplace can decide what the best UI is in this case. > > > >Better ones like what? I'm serious. The current XAuth spec has an > >IdP/Extender > >deciding upfront which RP should be allowed to see the end user has a > >relationship to the IdP. I cannot imagine how you'd build a UI to fix that > >problem. If you can imagine a UI improvement, please describe it! > > I believe John's argument here is that UI development can be crowd-sourced: > > We *can* go to all the trouble of imagining better ones, but why > *should* we when all the differently-thinking users out there will > demand their own best changes once they see the prototype? > > -Shade > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general >
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