- From: Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:13:12 -0500
- To: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>, Web Payments IG <public-webpayments-ig@w3.org>
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ditto about the caveat: what about 'checkpoint' - it's a check-point, do not pass go, do not collect $100, provide your credentials and you may pass... Tim.H. On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 at 00:36 Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com <mailto:dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote: On 06/07/2016 11:00 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: > We discussed terminology on the Verifiable Claims Task Force call today > and left two things undecided. We really need to get this terminology > straight in order to align the prose in all of the documents. As a first > step, we need to get all of the options on the table. > > ------- > > We have a block in our architecture block diagram that is currently > labeled as "inspector": > > http://w3c.github.io/webpayments-ig/VCTF/architecture/architecture.svg <http://w3c.github.io/webpayments-ig/VCTF/architecture/architecture.svg> > > This is the entity that requests a set of verifiable claims from the > holder and examines them to determine if they are valid for the purposes > of granting access to a particular resource. Naming options include: > > Consumer > Inspector > Reader > Verifier > Receiver I'd like to add "Requester" to the list. I can't say it's my #1 (I apologize for not complying with that particular caveat for new suggestions), but it was offered in the previous call as an alternative so I thought it should be here. When someone visits a website that requires authentication, they will be asked to provide their credentials by this party. So we're talking about the party that is "requesting" a credential/set of claims from the holder. It seems natural that "Requester" should be considered as a possible name. They may not be the same party that does the verification or "inspection" as they may outsource this -- so I feel like it's a better name than "Verifier" or "Inspector". The term "consumer" has caused confusion/trouble for a number of people so I would prefer to find something less controversial. I'm also amenable to reusing an existing term of art, "Relying Party", as offered by David Chadwick. But it is both a positive and a negative that it's an existing term. While it's easy for people who know the term to grasp its purpose quickly, it may bring with it baggage we do not want or it may suggest to people that we're not inventing something new. We moved away from "user centric" for similar reasons, but there was a strong misalignment of definitions there whereas Relying Party closely matches here. -- Dave Longley CTO Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://digitalbazaar.com <http://digitalbazaar.com/>
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