Member Sites

Member Sites would like to have something like Passport because they believe that End Users hate registration forms.

Supporting multiple reference APIs would be a pain in the butt for most Member Sites. If a single API allowed for multiple Reference Sites, that would probably be fine (i.e., no extra work).

A site that could be this and one of the Reference Sites would be Yahoo.

Ranked requirements for this group (for a Distributed Membership System):

• minimize work to write/use code to support system (includes: no changes necessary to data structures, field/variable names, internal userID structure, etc.)

• minimize variations to handle (mimic Passport API?)

• minimize change requirements caused by this system (stable API)

• minimize confusion to bonehead users to avoid turning them away

• flag fields as optional or required (to reference system, for user approval, so user can withhold info more easily)

• increase confirmation that user is "real" (reduce credit card fraud)