Identity

	Mozilla Identity Roadmap
	Owner: Dan Mills	Updated: 2012-02-13
	Our goal is to provide to users convenient, safe, and open identity solutions that can become standard components of the Web, while working out-of-the-box as well as we can make them to. In 2012, we will expand our user-centered identity platform beyond sign-in to also include connecting with sites and people as well as online payments.

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Weekly meetings

Our weekly meetings are open to the public. They are short (30 mins) and very focused. For longer discussions, email is much better.

Vision

Central to a people-centered ecosystem is an identity system that is under the control of the individual, and enables information sharing on the users own terms with no take-it-or-leave-it policies. To this end, Mozilla is building an identity system for the Web that has these properties.

The first service we're building, currently code-named BrowserID, enables users to easily sign into websites using their existing email address in a secure and privacy-protecting way, with no additional passwords. For developers, it offers a very easy to implement API, and a verified email address they can use to communicate with the user.

User identities encompass much more than just an email address, of course, and so the next components of the Mozilla identity system will include payments, profile and data sharing on the users terms and more.

Projects and Roadmap

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Sign-in

Name	Description	Status	When	Who
Localization support	Make the sign-in flow available for multiple locales	In progress	Q1	Austin King
ID provider ("primaries") support	Sign into websites with your email provider as the source of the trust-chain	Complete	Q1	Lloyd Hilaiel
Name & photo support	Optionally disclose a name & photo as part of signing into sites	Designing & planning	Alpha in Q1	Shane Tomlinson
Unverified email support	When signing up for the first time, disclose an email to the site before it has been verified	Evaluating (might not do at all)	Q1	Ben Adida
Shared computers & public terminals	Make BrowserID safer to use on public computers and public terminals	Designing & planning	Q1	Ben Adida
Key-wrapping	Support for key wrapping and wrapped key storage. This allows other sites to encrypt data with a key that is unlocked (locally) with the user's BrowserID password.	Designing & planning	Q1	Ben Adida
BrowserID on 2 datacenters	Deploy the service component of BrowserID on a second datacenter	In progress	Q1	Pete Fritchman
BrowserID Firefox add-on beta	The BrowserID Firefox add-on better integrates the BrowserID pop-up on Firefox	In progress	Q1	Ben Adida
Mozilla primary server	Make mozilla.org/com an ID provider in the BrowserID system	In progress	Q1	Ben Adida
Auto sign-in	Sign into the browser itself with your BrowserID account to enable browser services such as sync	Designing & planning	Q2	Dan Mills
Sign into the browser	Sign into the browser itself with your BrowserID account to enable browser services such as sync	Designing & planning	Q3 (TBD - best guess)	Dan Mills

Connect

Name	Description	Status	When	Who
navigator.id.share() prototype	Developer API to allow users to easily share content with others	Exploring / Prototyping	Prototype in Q2	Dan Mills

Pay

Name	Description	Status	When	Who
navigator.id.pay() prototype	Developer API to allow users to easily pay for digital or physical goods	Exploring / Prototyping	Prototype in Q2	Dan Mills

Other

Name	Description	Status	When	Who
Identity dashboard prototype	Build a site where users can sign in to see and manage personal information	Exploring / Prototyping	Prototype in Q2	Dan Mills

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