Time for feedback

[Jaco Aizenman]

How about "person" instead of "user"...?


On 12/27/05, Carl Howells <chowells at janrain.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit uncomfortable with the term "citizen".  The term has two
> disadvantages, from my perspective.
>
> First, it's not the term most people are familiar with.  Most people
> would find the term "user" to be a much more familiar name for that
> party in the process.
>
> Second, "citizen" implies, to me, some sort of intelligence behind the
> request.  If an automated system is using YADIS to look up services,
> calling it a citizen just seems inappropriate.  It's just something
> using the system...  Something I'd like to call a "user."
>
> Carl Howells
>
> Joaquin Miller wrote:
> > Fellow workers:
> >
> > Best wishes to all people of the Book, Buddhists, pagans, those of other
> > excellent faiths, atheists and all other fine folk celebrating
> > religious, solar, or civil holidays from the dark solstice to the
> > Gregorian, Julian and other nearby calendrical events.
> >
> > Time to read and comment on:
> >
> > http://yadis.org/wiki/YADIS_Protocol
> > http://yadis.org/wiki/YADIS_Resource_Descriptor
> >
> > Please.
> >
> > Comments through the Discussion tab or by eMail to your editor.
> >
> > I will soon make a few changes as already indicated on the Discussion
> > pages, and call that 0.72.
> >
> > The links will remain the same now,  until we reach the long awaited and
> > much to be desired 1.0.  Lacking an automatic conversion tool, I will
> > not attempt to make any OpenOffice files before YADIS 1.0.
> >
> > Cordially, Joaquin
> >
> > p.s. My darling wife and I will leave for the Big Island on 3 January,
> > when it will be to late for you to have any further influence on YADIS
> > 1.0, the famous specification document.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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