Identity
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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. | ||
Get Involved
- Follow our blog
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- Subscribe to our forum/mailing list (also available as a newsgroup: mozilla.dev.identity). To send email to the list, use the mailman interface.
- IRC (Chat)
- Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #identity
- 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
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 |
| TOS/PP in BrowserID | Allow sites to prompt for acceptance of their terms of service and/or privacy policy via the BrowserID popup | In progress | Q1 | Ben Adida |
| 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 | Automatically sign into sites (with user opt-in) | 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 | Not started | Prototype in Q2 | Dan Mills |
| Remote storage API prototype | Developer API to store data (files) in the user's preferred storage provider | Not started | Prototype in Q3 | 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 | Not started | Prototype in Q2 | Dan Mills |
| Old / Archived |
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