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<font size=3>Alice is surfing. To refer to an entity, which
requests either confirmation that it is indeed Alice or some other
information about Alice, as an 'identity consumer' is strictly
correct.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.joaquin.net/ODP/Part2/13.html#13.3.4" eudora="autourl">
http://www.joaquin.net/ODP/Part2/13.html#13.3.4<br><br>
</a>Then, of course, we will all shorten that to 'consumer.'<br><br>
Now we have Amazon being the consumer, instead of Alice.<br><br>
This is my argument, as i strongly urge that we use 'relying party'*
instead of 'identity consumer.'<br><br>
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Sure, we are all geeks and know precisely what we mean when we use a term
of art. But that means we can seamlessly switch to another term
that provides much less confusion potential.<br><br>
Cordially, Joaquin<br><br>
[I refrain from mentioning that the term, 'identity consumer,' is
nonsense, because we all know it is simply short for 'identity
information consumer.' An identity consumer is one of those
terrible monsters from science fiction.]<br><br>
* Relying party:<br><br>
<a href="http://cis-berkman.editme.com/Lexicon" eudora="autourl">
http://cis-berkman.editme.com/Lexicon<br>
</a>
<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy/ClearSignatures(Scoville).htm" eudora="autourl">
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy/ClearSignatures(Scoville).htm<br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.projectliberty.org/resources/whitepapers/Liberty%20and%203rd%20Party%20Identity%20Systems%20White%20Paper.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.projectliberty.org/resources/whitepapers/Liberty%20and%203rd%20Party%20Identity%20Systems%20White%20Paper.pdf<br>
</a>
<a href="http://mtnltrustline.com/repository/rpa_org.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://mtnltrustline.com/repository/rpa_org.htm<br>
</a>
<a href="https://ispcenter.verisign.com/VSApps/client/relying_party.htm" eudora="autourl">
https://ispcenter.verisign.com/VSApps/client/relying_party.htm<br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.entrust.net/relying/pdf/webrelying010103.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.entrust.net/relying/pdf/webrelying010103.pdf<br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.geotrust.com/resources/cps/pdfs/true_site_RPA.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.geotrust.com/resources/cps/pdfs/true_site_RPA.pdf<br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.thawte.com/en/guides/pdf/cpsrelyingparty.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.thawte.com/en/guides/pdf/cpsrelyingparty.pdf<br>
</a>
<a href="http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/LID_Relying_Party" eudora="autourl">
http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/LID_Relying_Party<br>
</a><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/" eudora="autourl">
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/<br>
</a>
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/identitymetasystem.asp" eudora="autourl">
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/identitymetasystem.asp<br>
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