Draft OpenID 2.x User Experience working group charter

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 17:09:28 UTC 2010


One would hope that the author of a TOS or any other document will use terms appropriate for the audience.

This is the specs list, and we (identity experts) all should know what an RP is. I see zero value in renaming it for the spec. 

If your point is to do with UX, a guideline on contextually appropriate terms would be useful? (I agree) Is that your point?

On 2010-06-02, at 10:01 AM, jDavid wrote:

> my point is that if you write up a TOS, or some other specific verbiage you are going to right now use the term 'relying party', and until you know the details of OpenID, relying party is meaningless.
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> Facebook uses the term 'partner website'
> http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/108
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> Let's get simpler, clearer, and more human friendly.
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> Ubuntu has been doing a great job of cleaning little things like this up.  They have set a goal to be easier to use than Mac OSX, it's a lofty goal, but it's a good one.  Open Technologies don't need to be complicated to be open, let's prove that.
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> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2010-06-02, at 9:22 AM, jDavid wrote:
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> > no, but if i tell my grandma, mom, brother or dad that the relying party is going to do something with her data, what is she to assume?
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> Well, I would be telling them specific sites and not use the term relying party. Similarly I would not be using the term OpenID Provider.
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> > it's not a good noun.  social app is better but i am sure it's not the best.
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> Do you think that we should only use OpenID for social apps?
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> >  let's just try to find something meaningful.  i also think relying party makes more sense with browser redirects, than with how OpenID could work.
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> If the OP is a server, I don't see how you get away from redirects. I also don't understand why you think that makes more sense.
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> > 3rd party site would be a more commonly used noun set.
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> Who is the 1st and 2nd party?
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