RE: Passing "origin" with intents

Matthew wrote: 
> IMHO, we don't want the user making a choice to disclose origin or not. It will
> be difficult to communicate the concept of "origin" to a user. I think that most
> users would not be able to understand the implications of disclosing the origin,
> so giving them this choice seems like it wouldn't really accomplish anything
> other than force an uncomfortable choice on the user.

There will probably COTS products which will be meant for in house systems, like Zimbra and Github and Mailman. They will probably (if they're maintained) eventually grow Intent support. And users will want to use them. But ...

Let's look at a Zimbra deployed for a company "Example.com Inc." It has an internal client system "Client Referrals", for some reason they want to know if people were using the corporate Zimbra for Pick-Contact, so they want this "origin" property. As such, they can't configure zimbra.example.com's Pick-Contact provider *not* to supply a "return" origin. However, when the user wants to run an app "Facebook", and it asks the user to Pick-Contact, and the user selects zimbra.example.com, the user doesn't want to leak `zimbra.example.com` with the selected Contact.

Now, that example is backwards, for a `service reply origin` as opposed to a `client request origin`.

I'm sure there are use cases (specifically the Auth/O-Auth stuff), but I'd like to see a UC described in terms of something else, a Pick-*, or similar.

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Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:13:00 UTC