proposal: rename trust_root to realm

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Tue Sep 19 23:51:11 UTC 2006


+1

But I'd also like the spec to mention what the JanRain guys said earlier:
that it's just for the IdP to tell the user, so the user can decide to
whitelist a whole realm prefix rather than each ugly return_to URL under
it....  and it adds nothing to the security.



On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Dick Hardt wrote:

> Problem:
>
> trust_root (8.2) has specific meaning in PKI terms that is very
> different from what it is being used for in OpenID. Realm is a term
> used in HTTP AUTH that reflects the usage.
>
> Proposal:
>
> Deprecate 'trust_root' and use 'realm'
>
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