Re: [higgins-dev] Notes from Higgins Dev Call September 28 at 12pm ET

[Johannes Ernst <jernst+eclipse.org@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> [BTW, I just saw that AR acronym on an email by you on the OpenID  
> list. I
> think the converse should be AI (attribute issuer) not (attribute
> provider)--this allows the user to be "in the middle" acting as the
> "provider". My $0.02].

In my defense, these weren't my terms, I just passed them on ...

Personally, I think we should not think about the concept of an  
"attribute" at all because it implies atomicity or at least something  
small and isolated ... Instead, I believe we should think of a graph  
of related objects, some of which may be conveyed (by copy aka "push"  
or reference aka "pull") to some other party, but whose links and  
relationships to other objects in that graph should never be broken  
(except for security/privacy reasons -- in which case they may look  
like attributes, but that's a special case).

Cheers,



Johannes.