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Subject: Re: [xri] TargetAuthority and TargetSubject
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 -------------------------------------------------- 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. > > -- > --Breno > > +1 (650) 214-1007 desk > +1 (408) 212-0135 (Grand Central) > MTV-41-3 : 383-A > PST (GMT-8) / PDT(GMT-7) >
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