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Subject: Re: Comments on Glossary section
At 05:18 PM 3/16/01 -0800, Jahan Moreh wrote: >This my first email to the group after a week of observation. Welcome! >I have found that the glossary has many useful definitions. However, some >are "legacy" and some are not directly related to the main document (though >at some later draft these terms may be come pertinent). It is my opinion >that a glossary should consist of terms that are either directly or >indirectly referenced in the main document. Therefore, I believe we should >have a final look at the glossary after the body of the document is complete >to determine if we have all definitions are referenced (again directly or >indirectly) in the document. Here are my suggestions for terms to eliminate: - All or nearly all acronyms/abbreviations that simply point to their expansion. (It's probably a good idea for us to spell out all our terms when we use them anyway, since so many of them start with "A"...) This would make the glossary a lot more compact and easy to use. If people don't already know what the expansion of SSL is, they probably aren't qualified to read our spec. :-) - If we really need to distinguish AAA services (and all "AAA *" terms) from their generic counterparts (such as a vanilla "service"), perhaps we can use "security" as the qualifying word -- less alphabet soup. - I was feeling swamped by all the "access control" terms. I would suggest eliminating all those that have no direct or indirect bearing on the models we've been discussing. Isn't access control a subset of a type of authorization? - Eliminate "classic" terms such as "attack," "firewall," "IP," and "DMZ," and instead point to some well-known glossary (such as those already cited in the references section) for them. Eve -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems XML Technology Development eve.maler @ east.sun.com
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