I am happy with either <AuthenticationMethod> or <AuthNMethod>. I have not
fully assimilated the new naming rules and as usual am being sloppy about
details.
Hal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:55 PM
> To: 'Hal Lockhart'; Hallam-Baker, Phillip;
> ''
> Subject: RE: Question re: core-12 Authenication Code
>
>
> 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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