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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I’m in a situation where we’re ‘starting over’ with an auth service... And we’re looking for a suitable (openID/oAuth friendly) backend system to manage basic user data. I’m talking purely authentication as opposed to authorization. All authorization activities will happen at the application level.<BR>
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A little background:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We’re a decentralized network of web sites (3 core domains, and nearly 150 ‘spoke’ or network sites).
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We have very few business needs beyond verified email address (by policy only).
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We operate on many different platforms including django, drupal, php, movable type, wordpress, and others<BR>
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This is how we’re breaking down the project:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Authentication web service
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>‘Registration’ as a product to tie into the auth service
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>User profiles<BR>
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Some of the different options/routes we’re looking into:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Atlassian Crowd
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>CoSign
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Django app building a restful or SOAP API<BR>
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A hard requirement is that of being able to tie into OpenID/AX/SREG/oAuth as we progress down this path.<BR>
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Might any of you have any advice?<BR>
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-Jonathan Coffman<BR>
Product Manager – Social Media, PBS</SPAN></FONT>
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