Re: Mozilla Persona, lessons learned

On Feb 15, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Of interest to this group since we were counting on Persona being one of
> the login solutions that we'd use to transmit richer customer data to
> merchants (primarily payment processor and address information):
> 
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR
> 
> Of particular interest:
> 
> """
> What did we learn?
> 
> Persona should be pared down to its core: a decentralized email
> verification and login API for the web. No more session management, no
> attribute exchange.
> 
> Persona should be built natively into Firefox, Fennec and Firefox OS to
> make the JavaScript shim unnecessary on these platforms. The base
> functionality should be cross-browser, but the experience should be
> optimized for the native platforms.
> 
> Sites should control most of the user flow and Persona should be almost
> invisible to users.
> 
> Sites should be able to offer these benefits to their users with a
> native UA implementation: better UX, reduced login friction and phishing
> protection.
> """
> 
> In related news, Lloyd H. has left Mozilla. With the departure of Ben
> Adida last year, I'm wondering who's taking over the project. From what
> I gather both Ben and Lloyd started the work... wonder who is going to
> finish the work and how it's going to get finished. Thoughts, Kumar?

I wasn't on the Persona team so I can't offer much more insight than what's on that wiki page. I worked on integrating Persona into Firefox OS and there were challenges in making it secure while still decentralized.

Kumar

> 
> -- manu
> 
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> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
> 

Received on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:01:50 UTC