Charter submission for Account Chooser Working Group

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 22:16:21 UTC 2011


Hi Eric

Wearing my spec editor hat, the changes you are suggesting are interesting, but not essential to approval of a charter. I give a +1 to the proposal you have here:

https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/workinggroupcharter?pli=1

-- Dick


On 2011-09-12, at 3:09 PM, Eric Sachs wrote:

> I received 2 other suggested tweaks.  First, after talking with Tony he explained why it made better sense for the charter to have a broader scope, and then have the WG potentially refine/reduce the scope.  So I added the first sentence in red below to describe the additional area where I am trying to recruit participation.  In the same theme of "broader scope" I tweaked the "out of scope" aspect based on past feedback to give room to potentially work on protocol extensions that might help tune the user experience to better take advantage of an account chooser.
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> Statement of Purpose
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> This workgroup intends to produce user interface specifications for how a relying party can implement an account chooser for both adding accounts, and selecting an account that was previously added.  The specification would include a definition for the API interaction between a JavaScript widget and RP server that are being used in combination to implement an account chooser.
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> Out of Scope 
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> The working group is not expected to define non-backwards compatible changes to server-server protocols such as OpenID v2.
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
> Yep, that was one of the specific things I am going to continue to try to recruit participants to work on once we get farther along.  Is there anything in the charter that you think precludes the ability for the WG to include that in the scope?
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> Unfortunately I still have not been able to get any proposer or planned participant to show significant commitment to working with Google in that area :-(  Maybe I'll have more luck at IIW.
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> In any case Google is going to continue to work on publicly documenting the approaches we use.  I am hoping that if we have something more "meaty" it might attract some others to contribute in this area.  In the meantime I am open to other ideas about how to get some momentum in this area.
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Anthony Nadalin <tonynad at microsoft.com> wrote:
> As I indicated before, would like to see the server side be included in the scope, we want this to be successful and not go into the failure points that cardspace did. Without the server side I believe that this will not be as successful and as interoperable as needed
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> From: Eric Sachs [mailto:esachs at google.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:16 PM
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> To: Anthony Nadalin
> Cc: Mike Jones; Christopher Messina; John Bradley; OpenID Specs Mailing List; Chuck Sievert; Basheer Tome; Kevin Long; Andrew Dahley; Don Thibeau; Wei Tu
> Subject: Re: Charter submission for Account Chooser Working Group
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> Thanks to everyone on the specs council who provided feedback.
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> By default the proposal becomes "deemed accepted" tomorrow which is 15 days after submission.  A mailing list has been created for the new working group
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> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-ac
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> I had planned on announcing the mailing list at the OpenID Summit tomorrow at the account chooser session.
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> If anyone has any final feedback on the charter before such an announcement, feel free to grab me at the OpenID Summit today if you are in attendance, or just post email to this thread.
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> According to the OIDF Process Document "the first obligation of a new WG is to establish and approve its Scope, which should broadly describe the outer limits of the WG’s work."  A number of the comments from the spec council were about the scope, so once we get a good sized group on the mailing list I am going to summarize some of that council feedback to see if we can attract more participants to expand the scope.
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