Time for feedback

[Peter Davis]

FWIW, other security protocols nearby use the term 'principal'.  Seems
appropriate.

=peterd


On 12/28/2005 12:20 PM, "Johannes Ernst" <jernst+lists.danga.com at netmesh.us>
wrote:

> 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.
>>> i-name: =jaco
>>> http://public.xdi.org/=jaco
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>>> 
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> Johannes Ernst
>   http://netmesh.info/jernst
> 
> 
> 

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