Mozilla Identity
= "Our goal is to provide to users convenient, safe, and open identity solutions that can become standard components of the Web, while working out-of-the-box as well as we can make them to. In 2012, we will expand our user-centered identity platform beyond sign-in to also include connecting with sites and people as well as online payments".
Description
"Central to a people-centered ecosystem is an identity system that is under the control of the individual, and enables information sharing on the users own terms with no take-it-or-leave-it policies. To this end, Mozilla is building an identity system for the Web that has these properties.
The first service we're building, currently code-named BrowserID, enables users to easily sign into websites using their existing email address in a secure and privacy-protecting way, with no additional passwords. For developers, it offers a very easy to implement API, and a verified email address they can use to communicate with the user.
User identities encompass much more than just an email address, of course, and so the next components of the Mozilla identity system will include payments, profile and data sharing on the users terms and more." (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity)