Re: Re: A registration with a common userbase?

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 04:15:02AM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > The possibilities are vast. So, it would be probably better if you could > tell more about your constraints not avoid thinking abouth the solutions > that depend on those constraints. I read http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0259218&mode=nested&tid=149 and http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1025227718.php and came to think about the lines ----- ... The answer may lie in hooking up with Microsoft's Passport, or devising a user-protected keychain system on a hard drive or network that remembers all your passwords, or launching an online news industry initiative to simplify registration and subsequent site visits. Registration inevitably has consequences for weblogs, collaborative news sites and newsletters that point to news articles. Says my peeved friend: "If I have to register at every site just follow a stinking link, it slows down the exchange of information. Imagine a network where every news and information site has its own registration process." Silver sees the day when weblogs become quasi-emissaries for favored news sites --  designated facilitators that would grant users safe passage by channeling them through a shortened registration process, or perhaps even getting them a free pass into the site. Good idea. Who's ready to step up to the plate? ----- on http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1025226464.php and I wonder: Can we provide an authentication framework in PHP and PEAR, that can work independently from Passport and other services, but can gateway into them? Make it easy for developers of PEAR applications to use, and at the same time make it easy for users of PEAR applications to roam between such sites without need to permanently create new accounts and remember passwords? Kristian -- http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/18E5SVQ5HJZXG