This is a formal submission to the OpenID Specs Council to approve the Account Chooser Working Group. The draft charter is posted at https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/workinggroupcharter and the current version has been copied below. If possible, we would like to get a response from the Specifications Council before the September OpenID Summit so we can use that event for more discussions on this topic.
*Name* OpenID Account Chooser Working Group *Background Information* The term "NASCAR UI" is used to refer to one of the most common user experiences on Relying Parties to enable users to login with an identity provider. There are a number of known usability problems with that UI, especially in terms of supporting a large number of identity providers, and for offering users the ability to log in with either an identity provider or a traditional email/password. The identity community has had discussions about building a “cloud based” identity selector to deal with some of those problems. The idea has been to mix the user experience advantages of Information Cards, the popularity of consumer identity providers, and still support large numbers of identity providers as InCommon has done. The end result is a user experience that is being called an Account Chooser. For background, see accountchooser.com. The account chooser model can in some cases improve usability on a website even if it does not support identity providers, or a website that only supports identity providers, or a website that only supports a single identity provider. The account chooser model can also allow a relying party to customize the set of buttons it shows during the "add account" flow based on IP geolocation of the user to help promote a larger number of identity providers around the world instead of just a small number of providers as is generally shown on a NASCAR UI. The working group will discuss all of these use cases. *Statement of Purpose* This workgroup intends to produce user interface guidelines for how a relying party can implement an account chooser for both adding accounts, and selecting an account that was previously added. *Scope* Produce a specification for the account chooser user interface guidelines. *Out of Scope * The working group is not expected to define a protocol specification. *Specifications * OpenID Account Chooser User Interface 1.0. *Anticipated audience* All those interested in improving the usability of relying parties. *Language of business* English. *Method of work* Mailing list discussion. Posting of intermediate drafts in the OpenID Wiki. Virtual conferencing on an ad-hoc basis. *Basis for completion of the activity* The OpenID Account Chooser User Interface 1.0 final specification is completed. *Proposers* Basheer Tome, [email protected], independent John Bradley, [email protected], independent Nat Sakimura, [email protected], NRI Kevin Long, [email protected], Janrain Pam Dingle, [email protected], Ping Eric Sachs, [email protected], Google Chuck Sievert, [email protected], Google Wei Tu, [email protected] Google Andrew Dahley, [email protected], Google Chris Messina, [email protected], Google *Initial Editors* Eric Sachs, [email protected]>, Google
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