By that I infer <AuthenticationMethod> and not as literal <AuthNMethod> in
accordance with the naming rules?
One of the problems with the whiteboard is that an abreviation may not be
intended quite as such in the final product :-)
Having saved billions of bytes with my creative spelling of the Referer
field of HTTP I am now trying to spend them all with verbose XML tags.
Phill
Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.
781 245 6996 x227
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:37 PM
> To: 'Hallam-Baker, Phillip'; ''
> Subject: RE: Question re: core-12 Authenication Code
>
>
> Actually, I checked and the whiteboard transcription says
> "AuthN type". I
> consider AuthN Method to be preferable.
>
> Hal
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [mailto:]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:48 PM
> > To: 'Hal Lockhart'; ''
> > Subject: RE: Question re: core-12 Authenication Code
> >
> >
> > I think it came off the whiteboard.
> >
> > I would very much like to rename it, AuthenticationMethod
> > sounds good to me.
> > I think we should also rename the protocol element in
> > <Authenticator> to be
> > the same.
> >
> > [We can also change authenticator but that is another story
> and first
> > someone needs to come up with a better name, HolderOfKey
> being worse]
> >
> > Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
> > Principal Scientist
> > VeriSign Inc.
> >
> > 781 245 6996 x227
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:29 PM
> > > To: ''
> > > Subject: Question re: core-12 Authenication Code
> > >
> > >
> > > I was wondering why the term "Authentication Code" was
> > chosen for the
> > > consensus schema. I thought we had been using "Authentication
> > > Method" a term
> > > that seems more intuitive to me.
> > >
> > > Hal
> > >
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