[OpenID] FB Connect, OpenID and UX

[Martin Atkins]

Johannes Ernst wrote:
> My canonical example is the assistant who acts on behalf of the 
> executive -- responding to e-mail, editing calendars, booking flights 
> etc. often involving substantial legal liability.
> 
> If technology works for that scenario (both the "trust continues" and 
> "had to fire assistant" cases), in my experience, it covers most 
> interesting use cases.
> 
> Only trouble is that I don't know of any technology other than password 
> sharing that really works for that scenario :-(\
> 

I'd expect that the solution to this problem would be access control. 
Give each person exactly one user account and allow users to grant 
access to other users.

I think this is more just a limitation of today's implementations than a 
fundamental technology limitation.

To pick on your email example, it's not difficult to imagine a GMail 
feature where you can grant another user access to your email account 
when logging in with *their* credentials.

I think many calendar services already support something along these 
lines, though not being an executive I can't say I've had the need for a 
secretary to access my calendar recently.