New 'Login' Intent?

Hi, folks-

Forgive me if this has been discussed before.

The default intents that I know about are 'Discover', 'Share', 'Edit', 
'View', 'Pick', 'Subscribe', and 'Save'.

One of the great things about Web Intents is the ability to address the 
NASCAR Problem... and one of the worst offenders of that problem is the 
identity issue, which is made worse by the fact that it's still not 
really a solved problem, so there are likely to be more iterations of 
solutions like OpenID Connect (Google, Microsoft, etc.), BrowserID, 
Twitter, Facebook Connect, etc.

I propose that we have another intent, 'Login' (I don't care about the 
name... it could be 'SignOn', 'SignIn', 'SelectIdentity', or whatever). 
This would let users select from their choice of Identity Providers 
(IDPs), or to create or use a bespoke account for that specific site.

A corollary to this would be 'Comment' or 'Discuss', which is often 
hosted by third-party services like Disqus.

Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Developer Relations
Project Coordinator, SVG, WebApps, Touch Events, and Audio WGs

Received on Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:54:10 UTC