Re: [xri] TargetAuthority and TargetSubject

[Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>]

Hi Breno,

I was thinking similar thing.

The impression that I got is after all, who is authorized to sign the 
document.
So, I was thinking in terms of Subject - Signatory relationship.

I need to go over the trust portion again to think deeper though.

=nat

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From: "Breno de Medeiros" <breno@google.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:20 AM
To: <xri@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [xri] TargetAuthority and TargetSubject

> After the conference call on Thursday, where I got everybody side-tracked 
> by confusing Subject with TargetSubject (these used to be called 
> NextSubject/NextAuthority, I believe, in some earlier draft) I got 
> thinking about these names.
>
> I think they are unintuitive. TargetSubject as a name carries more 
> immediacy than NextSubject. As a terminology, it is jargon that 
> appropriates a fairly generic word to have a very specific meaning (of a 
> subject that is a delegate for _this_ subject, as opposed to _this_ 
> subject itself).
>
> Could the terminology be more self-evident? I agree that 'Next' is an 
> over-used word and implies time-sequential order as opposed to the 
> intended meaning (delegation).
>
> My concrete proposal is for SubjectDelegate and AuthorityDelegate. A 
> Subject delegate is a delegate for this subject, so the relationship 
> between a Subject and a SubjectDelegate when both present in a single 
> document is more evident.
>
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