[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Eric Sachs]

>> Have you folks written off Cardspace or similar approaches, where the
client is smarter and able to mediate discovery, at this point?

The Google team believes that for IDP discovery, there are options that can
be achieved without browser extensions.  In general Google always prefers
solutions that can be supported by the existing installed base of browsers
(especially mobile devices), as opposed to requiring client side software
installations.

Here is a link to one such proposal that is not specific to IDP discovery,
but is designed to make a user's web browsing preferences more portable.

http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/pds

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu>wrote:

> Have you folks written off Cardspace or similar approaches, where the
> client is smarter and able to mediate discovery, at this point?
>
> On 11 Feb 2009, at 19:02, George Fletcher wrote:
>
>  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).
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20090211/bcf2dfec/attachment-0002.htm>