That's very much what I was thinking of. I assumed that account management built on top of sync would be built into firefox accounts, but I gather that's not [yet?] general consensus. I feel like I should at least put a thumbs up in for account management that syncs between browsers/devices. Is this a question that the persona and sync groups are working through?
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > * What kinds of accounts do we intend for firefox accounts to support? > > > Hi Gareth! > > Stepping back a tiny bit: I think you might be conflating "service account > management" with "Firefox Account". > > Chris will have a much more thorough description of the latter coming, but > in short a Firefox Account is what we plan to use to allow users to sign in > to (Mozilla, at first) services on their devices. You can think of this — > in current but inaccurate terms — as a replacement for your Sync account: > something you log into to get access to services. > > Arguably one of the more useful services we could build *on top* is > account management: when you've signed in with your Firefox Account on a > device, it would be great to have access to some set of descriptors of * > other* services, along with credentials (above and beyond what password > sync provides). That is: having access to your Firefox Account would give > access to other things that don't directly use your Firefox Account for > auth. > > It sounds like what you want is this kind of service/credential > sync/storage. Is that a fair statement? > > This might well tie into the service discovery/description/management > layer that will ride alongside FxA to support Sync and our other services, > but perhaps not. > > I'll leave the rest of your questions for people a little closer to the > coal face. > > Hope that helps! > > -R > -- Best, Gareth
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