- From: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:11:49 -0400
- To: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>, public-credentials@w3.org
On 06/26/2017 06:00 PM, David Chadwick wrote: > > > On 26/06/2017 16:59, Dave Longley wrote: >> A potential problem with claimant is that the entity that actually >> makes the claim is the issuer. > > You are misinterpreting the word 'makes' in your sentence above. In > the various dictionary definitions of claimant, 'makes a claim' is > used to denote 'asking for something', not 'manufacturing' or > 'producing' a claim, which is your semantic Yes, I suppose it is true that the claimant is usually making a claim *for themselves* (or specifically for their own benefit). I do remain convinced, however, that there would be confusion by using this term. I also don't think that abandoning the term "claim" as a means by which to mitigate that confusion is really workable given its proliferation, the history of the group, and the politics involved in adopting that term in the first place. It seems it would be much simpler to choose a different term for the role. -- Dave Longley CTO Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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