Re: [soa-rm] Terminology and Glossary

[John Harby <jharby@gmail.com>]

+1

On 5/12/05, Peter F Brown <peter@justbrown.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
>