RE: [Auth]simplest design

[Nick Lothian]

> 
> "protocol" sounds somewhat sophisticated to me.
> What exactly does the simplest possible useful solution
> require? Well, it requires you (web page designer) to
> tell me (Mr. Plugin) whether you want me to use GET
> or POST, and it requires you to tell me what personal
> information fields you're asking for. Let's make things
> really nice for Mr. web page designer, and say that
> you can also specify alternative names for our
> "standard" fields. That's about it!


There are at least two sets of pre-exisiting work in this area.

An organisation created a standard for form fieldnames to do exactly that. I
don't recall the name, and I can't find their website.

Microsoft also has integrated vCard support in IE
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/re
ference/properties/vcard_name.asp). You add an attribute to a field and it
will automatically fill out the appropriate entry from the vCard in your
address book marked as yourself. 

Nick