Re: [projectvrm] First person technologies

[Brian Behlendorf < >]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> Note that Mozilla Persona is officially dead now. They call it 
> "transition to community ownership" but Techcrunch is more 
> explicit: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/08/mozilla-stops-developing-its-persona-sign-in-system-because-of-low-adoption/

TechCrunch is also pretty cynical towards Mozilla and loves to use 
linkbait, so no, it's not dead - bugs will be fixed, core services tier-1 
supported, and it's a foundation for a broader Mozilla Services vision 
that is still to be rolled out.  The declaration is that as a technology 
it's pretty much feature-complete, so don't expect new development - 
instead, expect Moz and others to build new different tools upon it.  As 
an alternative to OpenID it looks good at first blush; not sure if it can 
also be used as a complement to OAuth, but I'd hope so.

That does mean they won't for now be advocating it as a cross-system 
login system to compete against/replace Facebook Connect et al, because 
that's a much longer slog against entrenched silos.  But it should be 
included in any list like Doc's.

Brian