RE: abbreviations for authentication and authorization

[Hal Lockhart <hal.lockhart@entegrity.com>]

I agree. I can date authc and authz back at least 10 years (symbols for
constants in DCE). I don't know where Joe got them from before that.

Hal 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hodges [mailto:jhodges@oblix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:12 AM
> To: OASIS SSTC use
> Subject: abbreviations for authentication and authorization
> 
> 
> Darren Platt <dplatt@securant.com> wrote..
> > Abbreviations - Please, Please Don't Use 'Auth'!!!
> 
> I've observed a fair amount of usage of "authn" for 
> authentication, and "authz"
> for "authorization". 
> 
> I agree we shouldn't use the abbreviation "auth" because it 
> is quite ambiguous
> in our context. 
> 
> Aesthetically, I've never really liked "az" or "azn" for 
> authorization,
> especially when being used alongside some variation of "auth(n)" for
> authentication. 
> 
> JeffH
>