Login with Mozilla Persona
Raphaël Jadot
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Hi,
this is my first contribution to this workgroup, so excuse me if I start it wrongly :)
https://login.persona.org/about and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
Mozilla Persona is imho the SSO to support, which has a chance to succeed as a standard and decentralized open SSO where, in a way, OpenId failed.
Instead of connecting with gmail, yahoo, facebook, whatever, you simply connect with your email address.
As said the main developer: "Persona is an easy way to sign in that enables you to use your existing email account. It's an open technology on the path to standardization."
Miguel Prados Rodriguez Fri 23 Aug 2013 4:59AM
Easy and intuitive, I tried it myself and I will use it for new sites developments, thanks for the info.
Richard D. Bartlett Mon 26 Aug 2013 11:56AM
Yeah Persona looks great, and ethically it is squeaky-clean! SSO can be such a messy issue because you have a whole complex marketplace to worry about, and so many of the actors are ethically dubious. It would be nice if Loomio could support Persona and contribute a little to it's popularity.
Benjamin Knight Tue 27 Aug 2013 10:15AM
I'd love to see Loomio support Persona!
Raphaël Jadot Tue 27 Aug 2013 11:57AM
@benjaminknightloom @richarddbartlett @miguelpradosrodrig do you think this would deserve a proposal, not for a decision by itself - how could I decide something :p - but mainly for seeing if people are sensible or not to the idea of this integration (an indicator of interest)?
Chris Taklis Tue 27 Aug 2013 12:03PM
i agree with persona.
Richard Fortune Tue 27 Aug 2013 3:44PM
Definitely! Please do give it your support!
Miguel Prados Rodriguez Tue 27 Aug 2013 6:29PM
It definitively worth a proposal
Matthew Bartlett Tue 27 Aug 2013 7:20PM
What proportion of visitors are likely to have a Persona account?
Richard D. Bartlett Wed 28 Aug 2013 3:41AM
Single Sign-on (SSO) tries to solve the 'too many accounts' problem, but unfortunately it has introduced a new problem: too many SSO's! As a user, how am I supposed to recall if I used Facebook or Google or a site-specific account to log in to a particular service?
@matthewbartlett if we were just looking at popularity we'd roll out Facebook, Google, and Twitter etc before Persona, but in my opinion that would be a negative contribution to the ecosystem.
Of all the SSO solutions I know about, Persona is the only one I feel that is likely to make the ecosystem a better place over time.
FYI I came to this conclusion after scanning the docs, which I recommend if you're interested.
Raphaël Jadot · Thu 22 Aug 2013 10:05PM
I'd like to make a proposal, which is more a question: would you like implementation of Persona in Loomio? but not considering the development part (I may try to help there), I'd like to know if someone needs more explanation about how Persona works, what it would imply to use it etc. :)