Hi James, On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Manger, James H wrote:
> [johnk said] >> The problem is that the term 'consumer' is quite accurate and >> descriptive when you imagine that a software application, in the role >> of a consumer, is consuming the output of the "service provider". An >> 'application' is certainly an OAuth system entity, but the >> application >> might play multiple roles, one of which is as a consumer. > > > I disagree, John. > > Colloquially, a "consumer" is a member of the general public, a > residential customer, a person -- a closer match to what OAuth calls > a "User". Consumers consume the output of producers, abstractly, whether they are humans or software applications. > > > In computing a Consumer is invariably paired with a Producer. There > is usually an event stream from the Producer to the Consumer. OAuth > does not use "Producer" (using Service Provider instead), and there > is no event stream, so I think it should avoid "Consumer". I hate to bring up SOAP, but "web services" had the web service consumer and web service provider. I know we don't like SOAP, but I do think "consumer" and "service" are reasonably descriptive terms, and I would suggest that although not perfect, they might be as close as we can get. > > > Consider an application that posts tweets to twitter on my behalf, > or adds appointments to my online calendar, or periodically loads > images from a web cam into flickr. Such apps can hardly be called > consumers (without causing confusion). Such apps are producing the > content that the service consumes. > > > Eran's suggestion of "Service", "Client", and "User-Agent" sounds > likes it might work well to clarify the text. The client may be also a user-agent. Or the client might also be a service. I don't like "consumer" so much, but I don't think that "client" is an upgrade. - johnk > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
