Account Chooser & Open YOLO (You Only Login Once) Working Group



Account Chooser is an industry technique to improve the user experience for logging into a website. This site is for a working group sponsored by the OpenID Foundation to define standards for account choosers.

Mailing list
Join the current mailing list (online archives also available) – oidf-account-chooser-list@googlegroups.com

Note that this list is not hosted with most other OIDF spec lists.  We are investigating a false-positive SPAM problem that is happening with the main lists.  We have setup an OIDF mailing list (openid-specs-ac)  that we plan to move to in the future.

Contribute
If you want to contribute to the working group, as opposed to just reading the lists, then please sign an OpenID Foundation contribution agreement.

Specifications

The working group is currently developing two separate specifications:   account-chooser-basic-v8 and AccountChooser Integration API Profile 1.0.  Both specifications are in our bitbucket repository at https://bitbucket.org/openid/ac.

Website content
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Resources from the working group

Learn more about our Chooser work at https://sites.google.com/site/oidfacwg/. Note that the “For Website Owners” page on that site provides an overview, and links to this working group…
Draft spec of a local account chooser – if you want to become an editor, request access on the mailing lists. To contribute comments, post suggested modifications to the mailing list

Slightly more user friendly documentation: http://accountchooser.net/developers/api
Demo of a hot account chooser (CDS)

Draft spec for the CDS
Early guide for client-library to use the CDS

Slides and videos of an account chooser overview

 

Central Demo

https://sites.google.com/site/oidfacwg/cdsdemo

 

Meeting Schedule