Depends on how you define those things, I suppose — but generally focused on the user interaction around identifying oneself, or one's identity or attribute/claims provider, going through the interaction of talking to your provider and authenticating, and then having the authentication messages passed back to a relying party, followed by information related to whether the response passes muster or not.<div>
<br></div><div>Sounds convoluted, but we're basically looking at providing some guidelines around how to get the UI/UX stuff right around OpenID flows.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:32 AM, jDavid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://jdavid.net">jdavid.net</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is the goal to focus on Identity, Authentication, or Validation?<div><br></div><div>I would very much like to be involved.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial">Mike Jones prepared the initial version of this charter, and I took the liberty of renaming v.Next to 2.x, and made compatibility with 2.x an explicit goal of this work.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial">I'm reluctant of the applicability of this work to active clients and have subsequently removed this line:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span>·</span><span> </span>produce user experience guidelines for supporting for a spectrum of clients, including passive clients per current usage, thin active clients, and active clients with OP functionality,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><br></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial">Feedback welcome.</p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><br>
</p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial">Chris</p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(a) </b><span style="text-decoration:underline"><b><i>Charter</i></b></span><b>.</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(i)</b> <b>WG name:</b> OpenID 2.x User Experience.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(ii)</b> <b>Purpose:</b> Produce a user experience specification or family of specifications for OpenID 2.x that address the limitations and drawbacks present in the OpenID 2.0 that limit OpenID’s applicability, adoption, usability, privacy, and security. Specific goals are:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>produce user experience guidelines for less intrusive authentication user experiences than full-page browser redirect,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>produce user experience guidelines for controlled and uncontrolled release of attributes,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>produce user experience guidelines for use of identities and attributes by non-browser applications,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>produce user experience guidelines for optimized protocol flows combining authentication, attribute release, and resource authorization,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>produce user experience guidelines for use of OpenID on mobile devices,</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 60.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><span style="font:13.0px 'Lucida Grande'">·</span><span style="font:9.0px 'Times New Roman'"> </span>seamlessly integrate with and complement the other OpenID 2.x specifications.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial;min-height:15.0px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial">Compatibility with OpenID 2.x is an explicit goal for this work.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial;min-height:15.0px"><b></b><br></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(iii)</b> <b>Scope:</b> Produce a current generation OpenID user experience specification or specifications, consistent with the purpose statement.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(iv)</b> <b>Proposed List of Specifications</b>: OpenID 2.x User Experience and possibly related specifications.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(v)</b> <b>Anticipated audience or users of the work:</b> Implementers of OpenID Providers, Relying Parties, Active Clients, and non-browser applications utilizing OpenID.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(vi)</b> <b>Language in which the WG will conduct business</b>: English.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(vii)</b> <b>Method of work: </b>E-mail discussions on the working group mailing list, working group conference calls, and face-to-face meetings at the Internet Identity Workshop and OpenID summits.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(viii)</b> <b>Basis for determining when the work of the WG is completed:</b> Work will not be deemed to be complete until there is a consensus that the resulting protocol specification or family of specifications fulfills the working group goals. Additional proposed changes beyond that initial consensus will be evaluated on the basis of whether they increase or decrease consensus within the working group. The work will be completed once it is apparent that maximal consensus on the draft has been achieved, consistent with the purpose and scope.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(b) </b><span style="text-decoration:underline"><b><i>Background Information</i></b></span><b>.</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(i)</b> <b>Related work being done in other WGs or organizations</b>: <a href="http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-User-Interface-Work-Group-Proposal" target="_blank">Draft User Interface (UI) Extension</a>. <a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ulx/" target="_blank">Kantara Universal Login Experience (ULX) </a>working group. <a href="http://rpxnow.com" target="_blank">RPX product design</a>. <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/" target="_blank">Facebook Authentication Guidelines</a>. <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin" target="_blank">Google user authentication research</a>.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><b>(ii)</b> <b>Proposers:</b></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial">Chris Messina, <a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#0065cc">chris.messina@gmail.com</span></a> (chair)</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial;color:#0065cc"><span style="color:#000000">Dick Hardt, <a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline">dick.hardt@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 48.0px;font:13.0px Arial"><i>Additional proposers to be added here</i></p>
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