[OpenID] One-Click OpenID: A Solution to the NASCAR Problem

[Chris Messina]

On Monday, February 13, 2012, Francisco Corella <fcorella at pomcor.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
>> You may also be interested in some of the Social Agent work I did with
>> Mozilla around baking identity into the browser:
>>
>> http://factoryjoe.com/social-agent/
>> http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/03/12/the-social-agent-part-2-connect/
>
> Thanks for link.  Interesting.  I agree that there are similarities.
> In particular, your Activate step is similar to setting an identity
> provider as the default in my scheme.
>
>> So long as choice of IDP is something that you want to provide the
>> user, something like the NASCAR, a search box, or an email field will
>> still be necessary to help them get started.
>
> No.  A solution based on a cookie set by relying party to remember
> what identity provider has been used on a previous visit would need
> something to "get started".

Right, I'm asking about the first time visit. Not about a re-visit.

> But in my solution the <idp> element
> tells the relying party what identity provider the user wants to use
> even if the user has never visited the relying party before.

I believe this was a feature of CardSpace/Infocard.


>
> Francisco
>
> ________________________________
> From: Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
> To: Francisco Corella <fcorella at pomcor.com>; Dick Hardt <
dick.hardt at gmail.com>
> Cc: OpenID General <openid-general at lists.openid.net>; Karen Lewison <
kplewison at pomcor.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] One-Click OpenID: A Solution to the NASCAR Problem
>
> You may also be interested in some of the Social Agent work I did with
Mozilla around baking identity into the browser:
> http://factoryjoe.com/social-agent/
> http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/03/12/the-social-agent-part-2-connect/
> So long as choice of IDP is something that you want to provide the user,
something like the NASCAR, a search box, or an email field will still be
necessary to help them get started.
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not really a new idea -- but nice to see people are still thinking about
things.
> Challenges:
> How do you deal with the user getting a new machine? Is there a way to
sync IDPs or does the user need to log into all the IDPs on a new machine
before they can log into sites?
> How does this degrade for browsers that do not support storing the IDP
(i.e., all the existing browsers out there)?
> -- Dick
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Francisco Corella wrote:
>
> FYI:
> One-Click OpenID: A Solution to the NASCAR Problem, blog post at
>
http://pomcor.com/2012/02/13/one-click-openid-a-solution-to-the-nascar-problem/
> Comments welcome.
>
> Francisco
>
> Francisco Corella, PhD
> Founder & CTO, Pomcor
> Twitter: @fcorella
> Blog: http://pomcor.com/blog/
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