On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Doug Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, with FxA as designed so far, my application will have to hit the network > when I want to get the user's email address? > > I am just worried that I am going to have a bunch of RTT just to get the > user's email address. Then I am going to turn around and use the email > address against my applications back end (more RTT). In general, we want to > zero network time when we can. :) I got lost here - you'll get an assertion that proves the user's identity on device from firefox accounts. That happens on device and requires minimal network interaction (sometimes none). You can use that assertion to authenticate to your back end. You can use whatever seasoning mechanism you desire. make sense? lloyd > Doug > > > > // Doug Turner > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Lloyd Hilaiel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2013, at 5:04 AM, Doug Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you guys figured out how FxA is going to work between processes? That >> is, suppose the FTU sets up a user. Now, I run my application and I call >> navigator.id. What happens? Am I going to be hitting the network, or are >> you going to save this info in the parent process and just share it with the >> application? > > Once FxA is set up, every time you want to authenticate to a service, the > network hit will be minimal (if any). > > The current plan is to ship all resources on device in a system application. > > Other questions? > > lloyd > >> // Doug Turner >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Jared Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> TL;DR - If you want to help danny and rfk, you should really consider doing >> it right away. >> >> Hey all, >> >> Here are some things I've learned from chatting with Rob Lord in #picl: >> >> * FXOS 1.3 is feature complete Dec 9, to be released in March >> * As of now, FxA is scheduled to be code complete & riding that train. >> * As of now, I think UX is working on mocks/flows, but I don't think they >> have clarity yet on the final feature set or any of the interactions. >> * Next week (Oct 21-25) there is a Madrid work week, in which FxA-Persona >> integration details will be worked out. Jed and Lloyd (and others?) will be >> there. >> >> Any of these things may be incorrect now, or become inaccurate in the >> immediate future. But, thought I'd share what I've learned, to try to give >> signin folks a sense of the ludicrous speed at which FxA needs to build. >> Signin devs, if you want to lend a hand, it's probably a good idea to do it >> soon (just some friendly advice). >> >> Sync devs, CCing you to be ridiculously overcommunicative, also in case >> timelines have changed in the past 24 hours, you can correct me here ;-) >> >> Yours in well-intentioned mailing list overloading, >> >> Jared >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-identity mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sync-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev > >
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