[OpenID] Report from OIDF Account Chooser working group and upcoming in-person workshop

[Eric Sachs]

The OIDF Account Chooser working
group<https://sites.google.com/site/oidfacwg/>that got started in
September
2011 <https://sites.google.com/site/oidfacwg/wg-charter-note> is now very
close to launching the first version of a central Account Chooser service.
 This 4 minute video shows <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lln11MRfpPw> it
working today and there are many demos you can try
yourself<https://sites.google.com/site/oidfacwg/cdsdemo>.
 On March 22nd we are holding a meeting of the working group in Silicon
Valley <http://acwg2012march.eventbrite.com/>, and others are invited to
participate, including by watching a live video of the
event<http://acwg2012march.eventbrite.com/>
.

This project has evolved in an unusual manner for the OIDF because it is
primarily a service, not just a specification and open source code.  So we
are very interested in feedback from the community either at that event, on
the ODIF general list, or on the working group
list<http://groups.google.com/group/oidf-account-chooser-list>.
 The service is also protocol agnostic, meaning it works with OpenID,
OpenIDConnect, SAML, and just about any login protocol.  It even works for
websites that still authenticate users with passwords.  Google has
been experimenting
with an account
chooser<https://sites.google.com/site/gitooldocs/experiment---account-chooser>since
July 2011, and has found it works so well for our password based
users that we are in the process of rolling it out first to that group, and
only later going back to optimize it for people who log into Google via
SAML, OpenID, etc.



Eric Sachs
Vice Chairman, OpenID Foundation
Member of the OIDF Marketing Committee
Member of the OIDF Account Chooser working group
Senior Product Manager, Google
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