[OpenID] choosing persona during sign in

[Paul Madsen]

infocards effectively combine the two

SitG Admin wrote:
> At 8:35 PM -0700 6/18/09, Allen Tom wrote:
>> Having a OP-NASCAR to kick off the flow, followed by a Persona-NASCAR 
>> on the OP's approval screen seems a bit much.
>
> And the OP-NASCAR (death by acronyms! ;D) has already been criticized 
> for potentially overwhelming/confusing the user, so it seems even more 
> overdone.
>
>> Given that many OPs give away free accounts, and users are not 
>> prevented from having multiple accounts, I don't really see the point 
>> of a Persona NASCAR.
>
> To preserve the SSO feature?
>
> At 9:32 PM -0700 6/18/09, Allen Tom wrote:
>> Even for the users who successfully created multiple OpenIDs for 
>> their account, many users were  confused as to why selecting a 
>> different OpenID than what they used previously at an RP made them go 
>> through the RP's registration flow again as a first time user.
>
> Odd.
>
>> Again, since we all know how OpenID works, it's perfectly logical 
>> that choosing a different OpenID would force the user to go through 
>> the RP's reg flow again, as a first time user, but that's just a bit 
>> too much for many people to deal with.
>
> I don't think it's just OpenID that does this. If we can connect 
> what's happening with OpenID and Personas to what users already 
> understand to be happening when they log out of one account at the RP 
> and then log in with another, I believe they'd adapt quickly to the 
> new way of performing their old tricks. This is assuming, of course, 
> that they *did* use actual multiple accounts, instead of just using a 
> RP's internal method for accessing multiple E-mail addresses with the 
> same account. (This example assumes that the RP is a provider of 
> E-mail addresses, though it could be something else instead.) Even 
> users with access to multiple addresses per account might create more 
> accounts if they desired more addresses than were available with a 
> single account.
>
> -Shade
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