Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2017-05-16 15:16:08 +0100: > On Tue, 16 May 2017, Monty Taylor wrote: > > > FWIW - I'm un-crazy about the term API Key - but I'm gonna just roll with > > that until someone has a better idea. I'm uncrazy about it for two reasons: > > > > a) the word "key" implies things to people that may or may not be true > > here. > > If we do stick with it - we need some REALLY crisp language about what it > > is > > and what it isn't. > > > > b) Rackspace Public Cloud (and back in the day HP Public Cloud) have a > > thing > > called by this name. While what's written in the spec is quite similar in > > usage to that construct, I'm wary of re-using the name without the > > semantics > > actually being fully the same for risk of user confusion. "This uses > > api-key... which one?" Sean's email uses "APPKey" instead of "APIKey" - > > which > > may be a better term. Maybe just "ApplicationAuthorization"? > > "api key" is a fairly common and generic term for "this magical > thingie I can create to delegate my authority to some automation". > It's also sometimes called "token", perhaps that's better (that's > what GitHub uses, for example)? In either case the "api" bit is > pretty important because it is the thing used to talk to the API. > > I really hope we can avoid creating yet more special language for > OpenStack. We've got an API. We want to send keys or tokens. Let's > just call them that. >
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