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RE: [higgins-dev] Notes from Higgins Dev Call September 28 at 12pm ET
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Johannes:
>
> > [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].
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> In my defense, these weren't my terms, I just passed them on ...
Got it.
>
> 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).
I happen to agree with you. I'm always looking at the words we use.
