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>This creates a significant barrier to adoption. No, not really. Because Mozilla is running the Fallback server in the meantime.
by shardling 14y ago
>This creates a significant barrier to adoption.
No, not really. Because Mozilla is running the Fallback server in the meantime.
- inopinatus 14y agoOn the contrary, it means that companies (already deterred by the technical issues) don't even have to bother. It's actually another barrier to entry, only more subtle. It's an incentive not to bother deploying an IdP, which is the adoption I'm talking about and that is necessary to call it "federated". One might liken it to government subsidies for the incumbents in an industry. There's no "meantime" here - unless a Very Large Social Network adopts this protocol, I suspect the Fallback server will be the IdP most people use.
- jackalope 14y agoEven worse, Persona promises that "Developers get a verified email address for all of their users," which might be mistakenly construed as some degree of identity assurance, which can't be guaranteed by this system at all, especially when a fallback is involved.