RE: Question re: core-12 Authenication Code

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

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.
pbaker@verisign.com
781 245 6996 x227


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hal.lockhart@entegrity.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:37 PM
> To: 'Hallam-Baker, Phillip'; 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> 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:pbaker@verisign.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:48 PM
> > To: 'Hal Lockhart'; 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> > 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.
> > pbaker@verisign.com
> > 781 245 6996 x227
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hal.lockhart@entegrity.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:29 PM
> > > To: 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> > > 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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