Archive · Yadis wiki

RelyingParty Design Recommendations

From the archiveThis page is part of the working wiki of the Yadis discovery protocol, kept here as it was written by the project’s participants in 2005–2006. It is preserved for the record and is not maintained as current documentation. All archived pages →

Some ideas for the technical side:

if the user enters a hostname like "username.livejournal.com", this is automatically converted to http://username.livejournal.com/
if the user enters something with a first character that is usual for XRIs (like "=username"), this is automatically converted to xri://=username
in other cases the full URL must be entered (e.g. https://identityprovider/users/name/)
other URI schemes should be rejected unless there is a well-known resolving mechanism (e.g. for mailto: this has been discussed multiple times on the mailing list)

Some ideas for design:

The login area should NOT be designed in a way that local users may enter their username and password whereas external users enter their OpenID in the same username field while leaving the password blank (this might confuse).
The login area should always contain some name that users may recognize (see Yadis Naming: myD, IRL, URU ...) plus a small Yadis Logo, plus logos or names for all signon services (OpenID, LID, ...).
For now there should be a link "What is this?" pointing to a page where the Yadis concept is briefly explained to users. Some links to identity providers should be included.