Subject: Re: [Sip] SIP SAML Draft Review by Sebastian Felis - "clarifications"

From: Jeff Hodges <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:31:40 -0700

> ------- Original Message --------
 > Subject: [Sip] SIP SAML Draft Review by Sebastian Felis
 > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:02:48 +0200
 > From: Tschofenig, Hannes <[email-masked]>
 > To: SIP IETF <[email-masked]>
 >
 >
 > - Another topic is the usage of the term "Authentication Server" which
 > has the acronym AS. Since the term is originating from the trait-based
 > authorization draft,

well, it's actually from rfc4474 "SIP Identity".

 > this term should be fine. But from the IMS
 > perspective, the acronym AS is "Application Server". By today, the SIP
 > (p)rotocol is more and more associated with IMS and touches the terms of
 > IMS. Further, the term Authentication Server is not a common term in
 > SAML. So I propose to use another term, which is more SIP/IMS and/or
 > SAML conform, e.g. Identity Provider in case of SAML.

Well, this draft spec is being concocted in the context of the SIP WG, and so I 
am trying to have the terminology be as SIP-driven as possible.

We can note, though, in the terminology section, that "AS" is "app server" in 
the IMS world in order to try to head off confusion.

thanks for your review,

=JeffH

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