Re: 12 hours left for "Web Identity" rename poll

On 03/14/2014 01:40 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> How did you arrive at the current poll options?

They've either been suggested on list in the past or during the last
telecon and supported by at least two people:

https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-03-05/#topic-2

> What about: Web Identity Credentials, for instance?

It was mentioned at one point, but considered too much of a mouthful.

The spec name isn't set in stone, we just needed to change it because
people were complaining about confusion between the names WebID and Web
Identity. Choosing Web Identity Credentials would reintroduce that
confusion (because of the use of "Web Identity" in the name).

-- manu

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