- From: Kumar McMillan <kmcmillan@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:01:19 -0600
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
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 > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop > http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/ >
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