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[use-cases] We need to consistently use our terms #58

Open halindrome opened 8 years ago

halindrome commented 8 years ago

There are a lot of terms. For the sake of our readers, we need to use them consistently. And we should use as few unique ones as possible! I propose that we use these:

issuer - the entity that issues the credential. holder - the entity that the credential is about, and who "holds" onto it. consumer - the entity that needs to receive and analyze a credential.

Let's avoid terms like "recipient" - that has a flow feel to it and will change depending on how the data is flowing.

Thoughts @gkellogg, @burnburn, @bsletten ?

burnburn commented 8 years ago

Yes, I didn't like recipient myself, but it was the term used most consistently in the use cases I saw, so I continued using it. Your new suggestions are fine. Once you say go I'm happy to convert all the terms in my section to match what you list above.

halindrome commented 8 years ago

Fair enough. While you are waiting, if you look in ../common/terms.html there are a bunch of terms defined. I imagine we could define more, but maybe it would be worth a review for everyone.

bsletten commented 8 years ago

Thanks for all the consolidation work, Shane. I am speaking all day today but will do a pull tonight and hopefully a bit of work tomorrow morning.

On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:30 AM, Shane McCarron notifications@github.com wrote:

Fair enough. While you are waiting, if you look in ../common/terms.html there are a bunch of terms defined. I imagine we could define more, but maybe it would be worth a review for everyone.

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