[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[George Fletcher]

I like the possibilities of XRD or even configuring a browser with a 
specific preference that it could "push" to RPs. It doesn't seem like it 
should be that hard for a browser to add a header with the preference or 
better, detect that the RP wants the preference and only send it when 
needed. Similar to how the Identity in the Browser flow discovers RP 
meta-data.

Thanks,
George

Breno de Medeiros wrote:
> That being said, adoption would be a much easier proposition if RPs 
> hard better tools to identify the user's preferred IDP (or set of 
> IDPs). We should seriously think about more direct broking of user IDP 
> preferences via XRD discovery and/or a centralized service (which 
> could be distributed among different organizations such as DNS to 
> avoid over-reliance on a single player).
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com 
> <mailto:davidnicol at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     i've just realized that this thread is quite stale.  Undaunted,
>
>     On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com
>     <mailto:esachs at google.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Based on the test Yahoo & Gmail have done earlier in the year,
>     we already
>     > both believe that any "login" buttons have to include the brand
>     of the IDP
>     > and must be right next to the login box.  While that might not
>     scale nor
>     > promote the OpenID technology brand, that is just the fact of life.
>
>     And a good fact it is. promoting the OpenID technology brand to
>     end-users is inappropriate; if OpenID is successful the OpenID brand
>     will disappear like the vanilla flavor in strawberry ice cream.
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