Re: Social Web XG Extra Meeting Wed. Oct 6th (12:00 Boston/16:00 London) - Wrapping up Final Report Take 2

Hi All, 

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On 6 Oct 2010, at 17:12, Paul Trevithick wrote:

> Harry,
> 
> I just noticed something at the 11th hour:
> 
> In this para:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FinalReport#Identity
> There is this sentence:
> 
> A identity provider (also called identity selectors) is a social platform that manages and accesses identities over multiple other social platforms and applications. 
> 
> The sentence has the effect of assigning the term "identity provider" a meaning that conflicts BOTH with how that term is widely used within the identity/security community AND with how the term is used in the rest of the report.
> 
> In the identity/security community an identity provider is simply a single service that provides a set of claims/attributes (possibly including an identifier claim). For example, an OpenID "OP" would be considered an IdP. 
> 
> The meaning assigned in the sentence above moves far beyond the traditional definition of IdP to make it something that spans multiple platforms and apps.  
> 
> As a consequence, anyone familiar with the identity provider term will find the above sentence off-putting, and disorienting.
> 
> SUGGESTION
> 
> In order to minimize any other changes to the report, replace the above sentence with:
> 
> A identity provider is a service (e.g. an OpenID identity provider) that provides a set of attributes about a person, often including an identifier attribute (e.g. the OpenID identifier itself).  

FWIW, I am happy to make this change when I go through and perform my current edits, if no-one objects I will make the change which Paul has suggested, and will try and make the language consistent throughout the rest of the document. 

Regards, 

Mischa

> 
> --Paul
> 
> On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> 
>> Everyone,
>> 
>>   I did some final edits to the report. I still haven't gotten slide
>> 16 from DanBri's slidedeck,  and gone through Alex Passant's changes
>> yet (will try to get to these tomorrow) - but overall it's very close
>> to done. I'm sending it out to our various invited speakers for
>> comments now, and we'll be talking about it tomorrow. The agenda is
>> basically unchanged from last meeting. So, if you haven't had time to
>> read over the final report and make changes, *now* is the time,
>> because we have to publish soon. The goal is to have all suggested
>> edits by Friday, and I'll go through them and then produce a new HTML
>> version on Saturday.
>> 
>> Final Report:
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FinalReport
>> 
>> SWXG WG Weekly
>> 
>>    1. Convene [2]SWXG WG meeting of 2010-09-29T14:30-17:00GMT (See
>>       your [3]local time, i.e. 16:00 London, 11:00 Boston)
>>          + [4]Zakim teleconference bridge: Boston, USA:
>>            [5]+1.617.761.6200 code:SWXG Nice, France:
>>            [6]+33.4.89.06.34.99 code:SWXG Bristol, UK:
>>            [7]+44.117.370.6152 code:SWXG ([8]zakim calendar)
>>               o supplementary IRC chat: [9]#swxg on irc.w3.org port
>>                 6665
>>          + chair: hhalpin
>>          + scribe: bblfish
>>          + roll call, comments on the agenda.
>>          + PROPOSED: to approve minutes from [10]Sept 29th meeting.
>>          + PROPOSED: Last meeting, but everyone invited to keep
>>            participating through the Federated Social Web effort!
>> 
>>    2. Final Report Rough Draft: The latest (and hopefully, by time of
>>       meeting, last)rough draft is on the  wiki.
>> 
> 

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