[TYPO3-dev] Unified User Management and Session Standards

[Phillip]

Hi.
Generally it is that throughout the OSS PHP community and beyond  
people often need to integrate various solutions in order to build  
product that provides the functionality needed. Quite often this is a  
CMS with something added to it - a shop or a CRM Application or  
something.

Wouldn't it be at the time to finally unify user management  
interfaces and standards and maybe additionally session management so  
that it's easy for the OSS webapp communitiy to integrate with one  
another? Imagine turning off XT Commerces user management and having  
it latch onto that of Typo3 with just a few clicks. Extremly easy if  
both use the same standards. If each CMS would offer standardized  
interfaces for any other app to use it's user and session management  
transparently.

Has this been attempted allready somewhere in the OSS community?
And if not, wouldn't T3 5.0 be an excellent opportunity to introduce  
a unified standard into the OSS community? T3 is a large enough  
project to actually get some attention if it would attempt that.  
Imagine getting together with Drupal, Joomla, Postnuke, XOOPS and  
some others and discussing that.

What do you think? We could even work together on the same codebase  
for a functional module to handle that and bundle our resources.  
CMSes differ in case models, featureset and such, but all of them  
need more or less the same session and user management. We could have  
different levels of functionality. It should be a piece of cake for  
at least all of the PHP people to agree on a standard component for  
that stuff.

What do you think?
If such a thing were brought to life, would T3 and it's devteam be on  
board?

Phillip