OpenID in Smartphones

Full Title or Meme

This use case focuses on the parts of enabling a Self-issued Identifier within a battery-powered mobile device that will impact the protocol that is used when the device acts as a Self-issued OpenID Provider.

Context

• This use case assumes the user with a Smartphone that wants to enable a Self-issued Identifier using only that phone
• Both Apple and Android have learned that energy consuming applications will drain a user's battery and work to limit apps that do that.
• Also no app that resulting in huge drains on the Smartphone battery would survive for long in the marketplace.
• The gaol for would be a User Experience that is as good as the front channel OpenID Connect experience.