Re: Renaming Object Capabilities to Authorization Capabilities?

+1


*Darrell O'Donnell, P.Eng.*

darrell.odonnell@continuumloop.com

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 12:24 PM Brent Zundel <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
wrote:

> +1
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, 10:14 Jordan, John CITZ:EX <John.Jordan@gov.bc.ca
> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> > On Nov 3, 2018, at 08:27, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > This is related to the OCAP-LD spec that some of us are working on in
>> > this community:
>> >
>> > https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ocap-ld/
>> >
>> > Digital Bazaar's engagement with customers over the past several months
>> > wrt. the term "Object Capabilities" has resulted in confusion around
>> > exactly what an Object Capability is.
>> >
>> > Some history -- the "Object Capabilities" name was originally picked to
>> > differentiate from the "Linux Capabilities" stuff, which really didn't
>> > have much to do with capabilities (in the authorization sense). Object
>> > Capabilities makes more sense when you're talking about programming
>> > languages, but we don't really use it in that sense in this community.
>> >
>> > I propose we name the specification more appropriately in the hope that
>> > the name evokes what we're actually doing with the specification. The
>> > technology we're developing in this community specifically has to do
>> > with Authorization... capability-based authorization. Thus, I'm
>> > suggesting the spec is renamed to "Authorization Capabilities"...
>> > shortened to "zCaps" for the cool kids in the community.
>> >
>> > Also, this is a bike shed discussion, so I fully expect it to get out of
>> > hand and for us to have to do a poll like we did for the Verifiable
>> > Credentials terminology. Please only suggest names that you're committed
>> > to using with your customers (or that you would use with non-technical
>> > folks). If we get a bunch of +1s with no strong objections, we're
>> > done... and yes, I know that's wishful thinking. :)
>> >
>> > -- manu
>> >
>> > --
>> > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>> > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>> > https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
>> >
>>
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