Re: [projectvrm] First person technologies

[Johannes Ernst < >]

Well, you are on the Mozilla board, so I better believe you!

But note that even the official FAQ says "stopped funding new feature 
development" ( http://identity.mozilla.com/ ) ...

On Mar 19, 2014, at 17:20, Brian Behlendorf 
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> 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/
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> 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