On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 13:03, Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:54:42PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am 23.04.2020 um 19:00 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 05:22:01PM +0100, Stephen Coady wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Development work has begun on the API which will give applications > access > > > > to the new AAA solution. As part of our effort to migrate to this > new AAA > > > > solution we need to identify applications which consume the old FAS > API in > > > > some way. > > > > > > "AAA"? > > > > > > I find it good to go with the Economist (a newspaper) style guide > > > which invites writers to define every term before use. > > > > > > Rich. > > > > Triple A is a well known term. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(computer_security) > > > > > https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa96/configuration/general/asa-96-general-config/aaa-local.html > > > > Unless I didn't get you joking. > > That may be true, but whenever I see it mentioned I have no idea what it > means. For example, here in the US we have the AAA - American Automobile > Association (http://aaa.com) so as a name for a new project it's really > overloaded in my brain. > > Why not paint the shed FASv2 :)
The project name is NOT AAA. It is Noggin. The current FAS is actually Version 2. There was a FAS3 project for about 10 years that got put aside over and over again due to other priorities. Since the original FAS as a sort of anti-kerberos/anti-ldap and this is actually a bunch of covers to kerberos/ldap it felt insulting to call this FAS4. So a completely different name was decided on. That said, I agree we shouldn't use three letter acronym's without definitions.. the problem is that the terms Authentication, Authorization and Accounting for AAA have been in use at various level since I think the 1990's in security circles and if you are working that all the time, you just short cut it. [The original use I heard in the early 1990s' of AAA was a joke on the fact that it was as ubiquitous as AAA in road services and you probably ended up in AA if you worked too much on it. ] > -- > Stephen J Smoogen.
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