[OpenID] [LIKELY_SPAM]Re: Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Andrew Arnott]

I thought UI = user interface while UX = user experience.  Slightly
different.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu>wrote:

> Peter,
>
> I have to admit to some (more) ignorance: I don't know what an UX issue is.
>
>
> User interface.  No shame here -- I had to look it up myself. :P
>
> In the shib vision of the world, a long list of entities metadata is
> compiled and signed as a file at URL at well-known "natural" prividers,
> rather similarly to themodel used for the the original internet host files,
> pre DNS....
>
>
>
> What OpenID does seem to have done is use the web in the same role that DNS
> provided to the host file problem – liberate membership from centralized
> policy management.
>
>
> Having had static metadata for a long time, we've wanted to move towards
> decentralized metadata for a long time.  When we really began to try it,
> however, we discovered that federations have been providing us a lot more
> than we thought they were: advertisement for services, a discovery mechanism
> for users, trust broker and legal framework, a discovery mechanism for
> providers, etc.
>
> If federations were only for naming, we would have disposed of them long
> ago.  There's much more than that to replace.
>
> Our use cases require dynamic discovery that can bootstrap trust, legal,
> and advertisement frameworks.  This is why I've been pushing for provider
> tagging alongside pure reputation services.
>
> Take care,
> Nate.
>
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