Identity

	Mozilla Identity Roadmap
	Owner: Dan Mills	Updated: 2012-10-3
	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

Sign-in

Name	Description	Status	When	Who
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	Designing & planning	Q1	Ben Adida
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 the browser to use ID-attached services such as sync	Designing & planning	Q3 (TBD - best guess)	Dan Mills

Completed features

Sign in: Name Description Status When Who navigator.mozId Native DOM bindings for the navigator.id.* APIs In progress Q3 Kyle Huey persona.org prototype Build a site where users can sign in to see and manage personal information Exploring / Prototyping Prototype in Q2 Dan Mills Shared computers & public terminals Make BrowserID safer to use on public computers and public terminals Designing & planning Q1 Ben Adida 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 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 BrowserID on 2 datacenters Deploy the service component of BrowserID on a second datacenter In progress Q1 Pete Fritchman 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 navigator.id.pay() prototype 2 Developer API to allow users to easily pay for digital or physical goods Exploring / Prototyping Prototype in Q2 Dan Mills

Old / Archived

Force Page Refresh Archived front page Features on ice (or dropped): Name Description Status When Who 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 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 API to me Developer API to access extended profile data for the user Not started Prototype in Q3 Dan Mills