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
>> 
>> 
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