RE: [xri] TargetAuthority and TargetSubject

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

I had an action item from the last telecon to send a proposal wrt the
element name TargetAuthority too.

I have found that when it comes to the semantics of XML element names, it is
best to try to derive the semantic name on the basis of a shared functional
definitions and not the other way around.

I have started drafting a wiki page to do this but need to head out to a
series of meetings this afternoon - I'll post the page as soon as I get
back.

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:n-sakimura@nri.co.jp]
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 10:19 PM
> To: Breno de Medeiros; XRI TC
> 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
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