Subject: [sacm] [draft-ietf-sacm-information-model] Terminology change away from endpoint "identify" / "identifying" attributes (#26)

From: llorenzin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:05:43 -0700

At the Prague F2F, privacy concerns were raised around the concept of "identifying" endpoints. In many cases, the information we collect is not used to "identify" an endpoint, but rather to designate which endpoint is related to an observation or collection or guidance.

I suggest we find an alternate term to use instead of endpoint "identity" and "identifying" attributes.  One possibility is endpoint designation / designating attributes.  I'm happy to use a better term if someone can come up with something more appropriate, though!

Note that some attributes _do_ enable identification of an endpoint, so the privacy issues don't go away if we change the terminology, but I believe that changing the terminology will make it more clear that not all attributes have privacy implications.

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