Brion Vibber wrote:
Josh Hoyt wrote:
I think that OpenID can meet your stated
requirement. Is there a list somewhere
of the other requirements for your authentication solution?
The primary issue is the issue of unifying our username namespace so there are
no longer any 'same username, different user' cases at our hundreds of wikis
anymore.
This is outside the scope of something like OpenID, which explicitly uses
separate namespaces (something we don't want).
You could settle on one master namespace (wikipedia.org?), then
gradually roll sites over to only accepting logins from that
namespace, giving people the option along the way of merging
their old separate identity histories into the new master
login(s). I suspect OpenID could help with the cross-domain
logins, even if a final single namespace is the only one
accepted for logins.
I'd also guess that after starting to unify, there could be a
backlash when people start losing their logins. Multiple
namespaces might then seem more appealing.
Is there a page or past thread capturing prior discussion and
decisions about the single-signon goal?
- Gordon