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The Work Group is necessary to expedite the process of gathering representatives from disparate communities each of which tends to focus on the user experience for a single protocol or approach. Key to success will be attracting participation from the communities developing formal standards (e.g. SAML, OpenID, and IMI Information Card), communities supporting de facto standards (e.g. Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect), and communities involved in HTML username/password technology (e.g. browser developers).
The output of the Work Group is a set of guidelines and draft specifications that embrace many different login technologies, along with reference applications that can be empirically demonstrated to be easy for people to learn and use.
Specifically, this Work Group is responsible for:
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