Charter submission for Account Chooser Working Group

Eric Sachs esachs at google.com
Mon Aug 29 17:46:09 UTC 2011


This is a formal submission to the OpenID Specs Council to approve the
Account Chooser Working Group.  The draft charter is posted at
https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/workinggroupcharter and the current
version has been copied below.  If possible, we would like to get a response
from the Specifications Council before the September OpenID Summit so we can
use that event for more discussions on this topic.



*Name*

OpenID Account Chooser Working Group

*Background Information*

The term "NASCAR UI" is used to refer to one of the most common user
experiences on Relying Parties to enable users to login with an identity
provider.  There are a number of known usability problems with that UI,
especially in terms of supporting a large number of identity providers, and
for offering users the ability to log in with either an identity provider or
a traditional email/password.  The identity community has had discussions
about building a “cloud based” identity selector to deal with some of those
problems.  The idea has been to mix the user experience advantages of
Information Cards, the popularity of consumer identity providers, and still
support large numbers of identity providers as InCommon has done.  The end
result is a user experience that is being called an Account Chooser.  For
background, see accountchooser.com.

The account chooser model can in some cases improve usability on a website
even if it does not support identity providers, or a website that only
supports identity providers, or a website that only supports a single
identity provider.  The account chooser model can also allow a relying party
to customize the set of buttons it shows during the "add account" flow based
on IP geolocation of the user to help promote a larger number of identity
providers around the world instead of just a small number of providers as is
generally shown on a NASCAR UI.  The working group will discuss all of these
use cases.

*Statement of Purpose*

This workgroup intends to produce user interface guidelines for how a
relying party can implement an account chooser for both adding accounts, and
selecting an account that was previously added.

*Scope*

Produce a specification for the account chooser user interface guidelines.

*Out of Scope *

The working group is not expected to define a protocol specification.

*Specifications *

OpenID Account Chooser User Interface 1.0.

*Anticipated audience*

All those interested in improving the usability of relying parties.

*Language of business*

English.

*Method of work*

Mailing list discussion. Posting of intermediate drafts in the OpenID Wiki.
Virtual conferencing on an ad-hoc basis.

*Basis for completion of the activity*

The OpenID Account Chooser User Interface 1.0 final specification is
completed.

*Proposers*

Basheer Tome, basheer at basheertome.com, independent
John Bradley, jbradley at me.com, independent
Nat Sakimura, sakimura at gmail.com, NRI
Kevin Long, kevin at janrain.com, Janrain
Pam Dingle, pdingle at pingidentity.com, Ping
Eric Sachs, Esachs at google.com, Google
Chuck Sievert, csievert at google.com, Google
Wei Tu, weitu at google.com Google
Andrew Dahley, andyd at google.com, Google
Chris Messina, messina at google.com, Google

*Initial Editors*

Eric Sachs, Esachs at google.com>, Google
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