Terminology and Glossary

["Peter F Brown" <peter@justbrown.net>]

All:
The objective of the Glossary in the draft RM document is to tie down, where
we can, common understanding of different terms being used in the TC.
In order to meet the deadline for our first draft I had to draw a line under
some terms and add a definition that might not yet have achieved consensus
(framework, business, even reference model are a few examples)

Before there are any further exchanges on definitions, you should take a
look at the draft glossary to see what I have captured and see whether it
actually answers your concerns.

Further, in cross-checking with other OASIS specs, I particularly noticed
the Glossary that forms part of the SAML2 Specifications [1]. I think that
many of the definitions there regarding security, authentication and
identity are probably valid for our problem space too. To this end, I have
tried to identify and extract those terms and definitions relevant to our
discussions, and will load this extract to KAVI for information. I will then
prune and clean up the definitions to make them non-context specific, and if
there is consensus on all or any of these terms, I would propose to
incorporate them into our Glossary, together with the cross-references to
SAML and other sources.

Looking at the SAML editors list, I can only spot Rebekah's name as one that
I recognise and who was also involved in the SAML work. Maybe Rebekah in
particular might like to comment on this glossary and its relevance?

Regards,

Peter

[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-2.0-os.zip; Glossary
is not URI accessible directly, but is file named saml-glossary-2.0-os.pdf
in zip folder.