Oops. That was a typo. IDS was supposed to be ³Identity Data Service² (see
red correction below).

BTW, I¹ve implemented tonight these changes in the home page and the top
three ³overview²/door pages (now as wiki pages) in the staging area here:
http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/ver2/index.php

--Paul


On 3/16/09 10:39 PM, "Mary Ruddy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cleaning this up will be great. It would be nice if we could get even more
> differentiation between IDS and IdAS. Both have long names of Identity
> Attribute Service. What about IDWS (Identity Attribute Web Service)?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Trevithick
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:23 PM
> To: higgins-dev
> Subject: [higgins-dev] Reorganizing Higgins site/content (another tweak)
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I¹m just back from three days of Higgins meetings in France with the FC2
> consortium. The experience prompt the following proposed changes to the
> site/wiki content:
> 
> TODAY        -->        PROPOSED
> =====                   ========
> 
> Clients                 Selectors
> -------                 ---------
> AIR Client & Server     AIR Selector (including ICS)
>                         Web Selector (including ICS)
> ICM[missing!]           merged into the above
> RCP                     no change
> GTK/Cocoa               no change
> FF-embedded             no change
> 
> Identity Services       Identity Services
> -----------------       -----------------
> WS-Trust IdP            no change
> SAML IdP                no change
> RP                      no change
> Web Selector            moved up above
> XDI4J                   moved down below
>                  
> Identity Att. Svcs      Attribute Services
> ------------------      ------------------
>                         IDS - multiprotocol web service
>                         XDI4J - now moved here
>                         IdAS - today's Java framework
> 
> Where IDS is short for "Identity Data Service," a multiprotocol
> attribute data service (web service) based on IdAS framework.
> 
> Advantages/Disadvantages
> ------------------------
>   + All three "doors" are now doors to multiple things (consistency)
>   + We differentiate between the IdAS Java interfaces and the IDS
>   + We use "selector" instead of "client"
>     + so we can include the "web selector" under "selectors"
>     + now all selectors are grouped together under "Selectors"
>   + XDI4J has a better home
>   + The missing WEB (GWT) I-Card Manager now has a home
>   + Now IDS can support Plaxo Portable Contacts, XDI, etc. without
>     being confused with the name of the underlying framework (IdAS)
>   - The client word was a less bias-proclaiming word than selector.
>     We switched to client when we thought contributions from
>     IDIB and/or Liberty (ECP, etc.) folks might be forthcoming.
>     Now we should just go back to making a "multi-protocol" selector
>     and be welcoming by our actions (true multi-protocol-ness).
> 
> --Paul
> 
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