Title: RE: New Name ! (A new suggestion)
Great
suggestion, Carlisle!
Of
course, this name may invite shorter derivatives, for example, eXtensible
Credentials Exchange Specification, or XCES (pronounced "excess"?!), but you can
not beat the phonetics of "access" in AXCES.
Alex
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carlisle Adams
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001
11:53 AM
To: ; 'Eve L.
Maler'
Subject: RE: New Name ! (A new
suggestion)
Hi,
I believe that the group
has (rough) consensus that "S2ML" should be changed as the overall name of
this OASIS TC spec because "Security Services" is too broad. I, for one,
would not want to be in the shoes of the PR spokesperson (currently Eve!)
trying to explain to some analyst or press representative why XKMS -- which is
clear a security service -- is not within the scope of this TC.
Perhaps not surprisingly,
I have no objections to "A2ML", but I can understand the hesitation on the
part of some who either feel that "Authentication" implies too much, or that
"Authentication and Authorization" may be too narrow in scope.
Therefore, I will offer
another name for consideration (if only so that we have some competition for
SEX-ML!). It seems to me that what this group would like to do is create
a specification for the exchange of credentials. These credentials
(today covering both authentication credentials and authorization credentials,
but open in the future to other kinds of credentials that we may choose to
embrace) will be expressed in XML. Furthermore, I think it is fair to
say that the payload to be exchanged will always include at least one "active"
-- that is, currently valid -- credential (name assertion, entitlement
assertion, whatever).
Thus, my suggestion
is: "Active XML Credentials Exchange Specification", which has the
intuitive and somewhat appropriate acronym "AXCES" (pronounced
"access").
Carlisle.
