Identity/Department Status/2013-11-22
- Identity Department Focus
- Firefox Accounts: A single account that brings a growing ecosystem of useful services to any Firefox user.
- Sync.next: The new Sync - it does what you expect, its built on Firefox Accounts, and lets you access your data wherever you are.
- Persona: An open authentication system for the web gives you the fantastic convenience of social sign-in, without sacrificing your privacy.
For more information related to all Identity projects:
- Firefox Accounts (FxA): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/FirefoxAccounts
- Identity Roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Roadmap
- Identity Department Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity
- Firefox Accounts on FirefoxOS
Project Overview:
- We are integrating Firefox Accounts into FirefoxOS. Users will be able to sign into FirefoxOS during first time setup, or whenever they run an application that uses Firefox Accounts. For 1.4 this will mean a single sign in for Marketplace and Where'sMyFox. In the future, this same account will support Sync and new services built by Mozilla or our community.
Current Activities:
- Demo: Basic FxA sign up flow in FxOS :: http://vimeo.com/79618371
- Engineering milestone [9 December] working build, on trunk m-c and gaia master:
- 18 November: FxA signup works [in m-c patches and branch]
- Ongoing: patch reviews
Firefox Accounts (FxA) has other initiatives in progress that include: FxA Service, Sync.next for Android and Desktop, and FxA on the Web. Further information can be found on our Firefox Account wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/FirefoxAccounts
- Sync.Next (formerly known as PiCL)
Project Overview:
- Sync.Next includes two major efforts: Firefox Accounts on Desktop and Android, and a simplified Sync
- Firefox Accounts are a safe and easy way to connect with Mozilla and non-Mozilla services across all of your devices -- laptop, phone, desktop or tablet -- so you have access to the services and data you need, whenever you need them, from wherever you are.
- One of the first services built on Firefox Accounts will be Sync. Logging into Firefox with your Firefox Account gives you access to all of your open tabs, awesome bar, and bookmarks.
Current Activities:
- Weekly Engineering Report: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2013-November/000617.html
For more information on Sync.Next:
- Persona
Project Overview:
- Persona is an authentication system that eliminates per-site passwords, by allowing users to sign in with their email address.
- It's long term goal is to become a standardized and browser-native means of decentralized authentication on the Internet.
Current Activities:
- Ongoing work specifying the BrowserID APIs and data formats.
- Launched initial version of https://www.persona.org website, which explains what Persona is.
- Metrics
Project Overview:
- Measuring FxA, Sync.next and Persona
Current Activities:
- Defined "Minimum Viable Metrics" for FxA as first project: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/fxacct-mvm
- Worked out next level of detail with Jed (FxA on FxOS) and Danny (FxA Cloud): https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/fxacct-mvm-details
- Next: Formalizing plan into wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Metrics), bugzilla and github
- Next: Getting end-to-end universe up and running for one metric (probably new accounts/day)
- UX
-There is a lot of exciting UX work in progress. Don't hesitate to stop by and check out what our UX team, John Gruen and Ryan Feeley, have been up to lately. The UX wiki page can be viewed at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/UX
Current Activities:
Unless otherwise indicated all UX is WIP
- John produced initial art for Force Authentication flows: https://bug938635.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8333860
- And Force Authentication mockups: https://bug938635.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8334096
- UX for FxA on FxOS in general is evolving toward completion, currently we're putting together a canonical, global system diagram: https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/40c9-8890-528ba29a-a541-1d650a00c28b
- Ryan is producing guidelines for the UI of signing in and out of Firefox Accounts on Mozilla web properties, including desktop and mobile
- Ryan is producing the visual design for Firefox Accounts web which will be accessed from many Mozilla properties
- Ryan is maintaining web user flow diagram and related low-fidelity mockups
- Ryan is planning for FxA experience for 3rd party services
- Ryan will be reaching out to the creative team for potentially-harmonious integration of FxA and Tabzilla