Hi Eric Wearing my spec editor hat, the changes you are suggesting are interesting, but not essential to approval of a charter. I give a +1 to the proposal you have here:
https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/workinggroupcharter?pli=1 -- Dick On 2011-09-12, at 3:09 PM, Eric Sachs wrote: > I received 2 other suggested tweaks. First, after talking with Tony he > explained why it made better sense for the charter to have a broader scope, > and then have the WG potentially refine/reduce the scope. So I added the > first sentence in red below to describe the additional area where I am trying > to recruit participation. In the same theme of "broader scope" I tweaked the > "out of scope" aspect based on past feedback to give room to potentially work > on protocol extensions that might help tune the user experience to better > take advantage of an account chooser. > > > Statement of Purpose > > This workgroup intends to produce user interface specifications for how a > relying party can implement an account chooser for both adding accounts, and > selecting an account that was previously added. The specification would > include a definition for the API interaction between a JavaScript widget and > RP server that are being used in combination to implement an account chooser. > > Out of Scope > > The working group is not expected to define non-backwards compatible changes > to server-server protocols such as OpenID v2. > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Eric Sachs <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, that was one of the specific things I am going to continue to try to > recruit participants to work on once we get farther along. Is there anything > in the charter that you think precludes the ability for the WG to include > that in the scope? > > Unfortunately I still have not been able to get any proposer or planned > participant to show significant commitment to working with Google in that > area :-( Maybe I'll have more luck at IIW. > > In any case Google is going to continue to work on publicly documenting the > approaches we use. I am hoping that if we have something more "meaty" it > might attract some others to contribute in this area. In the meantime I am > open to other ideas about how to get some momentum in this area. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Anthony Nadalin <[email protected]> > wrote: > As I indicated before, would like to see the server side be included in the > scope, we want this to be successful and not go into the failure points that > cardspace did. Without the server side I believe that this will not be as > successful and as interoperable as needed > > > > From: Eric Sachs [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:16 PM > > > To: Anthony Nadalin > Cc: Mike Jones; Christopher Messina; John Bradley; OpenID Specs Mailing List; > Chuck Sievert; Basheer Tome; Kevin Long; Andrew Dahley; Don Thibeau; Wei Tu > Subject: Re: Charter submission for Account Chooser Working Group > > > > Thanks to everyone on the specs council who provided feedback. > > > > By default the proposal becomes "deemed accepted" tomorrow which is 15 days > after submission. A mailing list has been created for the new working group > > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-ac > > I had planned on announcing the mailing list at the OpenID Summit tomorrow at > the account chooser session. > > > > If anyone has any final feedback on the charter before such an announcement, > feel free to grab me at the OpenID Summit today if you are in attendance, or > just post email to this thread. > > > > According to the OIDF Process Document "the first obligation of a new WG is > to establish and approve its Scope, which should broadly describe the outer > limits of the WG’s work." A number of the comments from the spec council > were about the scope, so once we get a good sized group on the mailing list I > am going to summarize some of that council feedback to see if we can attract > more participants to expand the scope. > > > > > -- > Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | [email protected] > > > > > -- > Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
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