Brief update: both spec PRs are now merged. Hoping to ship in M122.

On Friday, December 15, 2023 at 2:29:58 PM UTC-5 Nicolás Peña wrote:

> Contact emails
>
> n...@chromium.org
>
> Explainer
>
> Domain Hint (formerly hosted domain): 
> https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/issues/427
>
> Disconnect (formerly revoke): https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/issues/496
>
> (Note: in the FedCM team, we have explainers in the form of GitHub issues 
> per feedback 
> <https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/issues/431#issuecomment-1425025469> 
> from FedID CG. The issue and the first comment are the explainers in each 
> case.)
>
> Specification
>
> Domain Hint: https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/pull/512
>
> Disconnect: 
> https://fedidcg.github.io/FedCM/#browser-api-identity-credential-disconnect
>  
>
> Note on spec PR merging policy (to answer the question “why has the first 
> not been merged”): in the FedID CG, we have agreed that non-editorial spec 
> PRs require review from two implementations. Disconnect has been approved, 
> while domainHint is still under review. Both features have been discussed 
> thoroughly in the FedID CG and the feedback there has been incorporated.
>
> Summary
>
> Allows showing only accounts matching a given domain hint in the FedCM 
> account chooser, and allows disconnecting a federated login account via the 
> relying party website. With domain hint, developers may provide a better UX 
> by only showing the federated login accounts from the domain that they 
> accept. With the disconnect API, a relying party (RP) may notify the 
> identity provider (IdP) that an IdP account previously used via FedCM in an 
> RP is now disconnected, and hence using that account again via federated 
> login would require treating it as a new account.
>
> Blink component
>
> Blink>Identity>FedCM 
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EIdentity%3EFedCM>
>
> TAG review
>
> https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/893
>
> TAG review status
>
> Issues addressed
>
> Risks
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> These are small additions to the FedCM API, which has (general) support 
> from WebKit and Mozilla. They haven't shipped FedCM yet, but it would not 
> be a lot more work to add these features. If a user agent did not have 
> domain hint support, this would mean it would show more accounts in the 
> chooser compared to user agents which do have domain hint support. Not 
> adding disconnect would mean that this feature of allowing RPs to 
> disconnect accounts would not be available in the browser, but it would not 
> impact the FedCM API otherwise.
>
>
> Gecko: Positive for disconnect and no signal yet for domainHint. Firefox 
> asked us to not send standards positions requests for small FedCM 
> additions, and to instead rely on pull requests. See 
> https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/pull/512 and 
> https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/pull/515.
>
> WebKit: No signal (
> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/249)
>
> Web developers: Positive. This is a feature requested by developers to 
> satisfy existing flows which break once third-party cookies are removed.
>
> Other signals:
>
> Ergonomics
>
> It will be often used within the FedCM API. We do not see ergonomics risks.
>
>
> Activation
>
> Domain hint can be polyfilled via login hint but it would be pretty 
> cumbersome to do so. The disconnect API would be hard to polyfill, but 
> could perhaps be done in a non-user friendly way via popups. This would 
> still be imperfect since the browser knowledge about the connection would 
> not be cleared, only the IdP-side disconnection would occur.
>
>
> Security
>
> The Disconnect endpoint will use CORS. An RP may not impact the connection 
> status of accounts not belonging to that RP origin.
>
>
> WebView application risks
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that 
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>
> N/A (FedCM does not work on WebViews)
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> Console errors and DevTools issues will be used to highlight any issues 
> with the disconnect call.
>
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, 
> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
>
> FedCM is not supported on Android WebView.
>
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ?
>
> Yes. Look for domainhint and disconnect in 
> https://wpt.fyi/results/credential-management?label=experimental&label=master&aligned
> .
>
>
> Flag name on chrome://flags
>
> FedCmDomainHint, FedCmDisconnect
>
> Finch feature name
>
> FedCmDomainHint, FedCmDisconnect
>
> Requires code in //chrome?
>
> True
>
> Tracking bug
>
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1473135 (follow 
> implementations in the two BlockedOn bugs)
>
> Launch bug
>
> https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4273848
>
> Estimated milestones
>
> No milestones specified
>
>
> Anticipated spec changes
>
> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or 
> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues 
> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may 
> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of 
> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>
> None
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5202286040580096
>
> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status 
> <https://chromestatus.com/>.
>
>

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