NBC Olympics' Discovery Service

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/28/12 2:00 PM, "Nate Klingenstein" <ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:
>
>The NBC Olympics are offering live streaming online to customers of
>most telecoms that would have access to the same content via TV.  How
>do they authorize users for the service?  Why, with a DS(first IP-
>address based hinting, then a drag-down menu) and SAML 2.0, of course.
>
>http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/help/index.html

Thanks, it's fascinating on a number of levels. In true Web 2.0 fashion,
my Firefox refuses to load any of their stuff, probably due to tracker
cookies.

In terms of UI, it's quite obviously what "any sane person" would expect
to see, and yet we spend all our time arguing about how to not do it that
way.

And lastly, it frames my cable provider login such a way that I have zero
reason to trust that I should be handing my password over to this page.

I love this stuff.

-- Scott