Re: [OAUTH-WG] Principal -> Subject in Assertions spec?

"Richer, Justin P." <jricher@mitre.org> Wed, 16 January 2013 20:07 UTC

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From: "Richer, Justin P." <jricher@mitre.org>
To: Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>, "oauth@ietf.org" <oauth@ietf.org>
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+1, it's a non-normative terminology change that aligns it with related efforts. It should be a simple text replace operation.

 -- Justin

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Principal -> Subject in Assertions spec?

In writing the proposed interoperability text for the Assertions specification, I noticed that the Assertions spec uses the term “Principal” to refer to the subject of the assertion, whereas both the SAML and JWT profiles use the term “Subject” for this same concept.  I propose that at the same time we add the Interoperability statement, we also change the uses of the term “Principal” to “Subject” in the assertions spec so that it’s terminology usage is more consistent with the two profile specs using it.

Thoughts?

                                                                -- Mike