Time for feedback

[Johannes Ernst]

We've sometimes used the term "actor".


On Dec 27, 2005, at 21:10, Christopher Granade wrote:

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> Unfortunately, I don't know how much that helps with the  
> "intelligence"
> issue. Perhaps entity? Or is that term too overloaded with synonyms?
> Maybe "party"?
>
> Jaco Aizenman wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jaco Aizenman L.
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