On 19-Jan-06, at 11:05 PM, Haripriya S wrote:

I think the original wording - 'relying party' is more appropriate than
'third party' because a third-party does not actually tell me that the
party has is a required entity in this transaction.

Yeah, 'relying party' was good, but as Ben pointed out (and Peter
supported) that it didn't really cover the case of a party providing
the user with some identity information, either an attribute value
assertion or a digitally signed claim. A 'relying party', by the Identity
Gang lexicon is a consumer rather than a producer of identity
information. They use the term 'claimant' for something that
creates claims.... I don't really like that very much, so wrote
'authoritative source' instead. Hopefully that explains why I'm
proposing that change.

John
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