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

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+1 to Allen's comments.



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From: Allen Tom <allentomdude at gmail.com>
To: Francisco Corella <fcorella at pomcor.com>
Cc: "openid-general at lists.openid.net"" <openid-general at lists.openid.net>
Sent: Thu, February 16, 2012 1:12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenID] One-Click OpenID: A Solution to the NASCAR Problem

Hi Francisco,

Thanks for sharing! 

One of the appealing aspects of your proposal is that it enables users to login 
with an account from any OpenID Provider, as opposed to being limited to a small 
set of NASCAR buttons. However, websites generally limit the choices available 
to users in order to persuade the user to login using a high value account with 
data and services (name, verified email address, social sharing, profile, Likes, 
etc).

In practice, not many websites want to users to login with 3rd party accounts 
unless they're guaranteed to get some data/services - it seems that most sites 
would rather have the user register a new local account with a password if the 
user doesn't want to use one of the NASCAR buttons.   Account Chooser and 
Mozilla's BrowserID are both relatively email-address centric because verified 
email address seems to be the bare minimum that sites need to to get in order to 
justify accepting a 3rd party login relative to just registering a local 
account.

Does your proposal have a way for an RP to specify the requirements for accounts 
that are acceptable for users to login with? For instance, an RP may only accept 
OpenIDs from OPs that share the user's verified email address. 

Thanks
Allen
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