It was a conscious choice in the interest of simplicity. All of the separate selectors we have could be thought of as just different flavors for different platforms. But there¹s really only one thing, the Higgins Selector. By contrast, behind the other 2 doors are mixtures of different kinds of things.
Could be wrong. What do others think? --Paul On 3/17/09 2:19 PM, "Mary Ruddy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Should door number 1 be called Higgins Selectors (plural) since all three > doors point to multiple things? > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul Trevithick > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:58 PM > To: higgins-dev > Subject: Re: [higgins-dev] Reorganizing Higgins site/content (another tweak) > > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> higgins-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/higgins-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> higgins-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/higgins-dev >> >
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