From: arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 00:39:40 +0200

Hi,

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Alex Kosowski <alex.kosowski_at_oracle.com>
wrote:

> My vote is for "Authentication Mechanism".
>

Okay, the race is on ;)

Terms so far:

* auth-method (Servlet)
* authentication method (Resin term 1)
* authentication mechanism (Undertow)
* authenticator (Tomcat)
* login manager (Resin term 2)
* login (Resin term 3)

9 out of 14 voted:

Arjan Tijms - authentication mechanism
Adam: auth-method (because in web.xml + servlet)
Darran Lofthouse - authentication mechanism
Pedro Igor - authentication mechanism
Rudy De Busscher - authentication mechanism (slightly favored) /
authentication method
Werner Keil - authentication method
Ivar Grimstad - auth-method / authentication method
Ajay Reddy - Authentication method
Alex Kosowski - Authentication Mechanism


Organized per term:

authentication mechanism - 5
authentication method - 4
auth-method - 2

Kind regards,
Arjan Tijms




>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
> On 5/20/15 11:13 AM, arjan tijms wrote:
>
> p.s.
>
> I just noticed that the Servlet spec is in fact using both terms as well.
>
> This is most evident in (emphasis mine)
>
> 13.6:
>
> Authentication
>
> A web client can authenticate a user to a web server using one of the
> following
> *mechanisms*:
>
> * HTTP Basic Authentication
> * HTTP Digest Authentication
> * HTTPS Client Authentication
> * Form Based Authentication
>
>
> 13.6.5:
>
> Additional Container Authentication *Mechanisms*
>
> Servlet containers should provide public interfaces that may be used to
> integrate and
> configure additional HTTP message layer *authentication mechanisms* for
> use by the
> container on behalf of deployed applications.
>
> And in 14.4:
>
> The login-config is used to configure the *authentication method* that
> should
> be used, the realm name that should be used for this application, and the
> attributes that are needed by the form login *mechanism*. The sub-element
> auth-
> method configures the *authentication mechanism* for the Web application.
>
> In fact, despite the web.xml element being called "auth-method", the
> spec actually seems to have more references to "authentication mechanism"
> than it has to "authentication method" or "auth-method" (although search in
> PDF is not 100% accurate).
>
> Maybe it's an issue that should be raised with the Servlet spec as well.
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Ajay Reddy <areddy_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> I use both these terms when discussing authentication, but I think I
>> use Method more than Mechanism :-) - so my vote is for Authentication
>> Method.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ajay Reddy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Inactive hide details for Werner Keil ---05/20/2015 07:24:01
>> AM---Actually if there are more out of the 14 eligable who might s]Werner
>> Keil ---05/20/2015 07:24:01 AM---Actually if there are more out of the 14
>> eligable who might still cast their vote now, could I pleas
>>
>> From: Werner Keil <werner.keil_at_gmail.com>
>> To: "jsr375-experts_at_javaee-security-spec.java.net" <
>> jsr375-experts_at_javaee-security-spec.java.net>
>> Date: 05/20/2015 07:24 AM
>> Subject: [javaee-security-spec users] [jsr375-experts] Re:
>> 1-TerminologyAuthInteractionVsStore ACTION: cast vote
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Actually if there are more out of the 14 eligable who might still cast
>> their vote now, could I please
>> -1 "authentication mechanism"? to give "authentication method" a fair
>> chance?;-)
>> It was my 2nd choice anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Werner
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:19 PM, arjan tijms <*arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com*
>> <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Ivar Grimstad wrote:
>> I think I will go for auth-method for the same reasons as Adam
>> mentioned, but authentication method sounds just as fine.
>>
>> Great, that now gives us:
>>
>> Terms so far:
>>
>> * auth-method
>> * authentication method (Resin term 1)
>> * authentication mechanism (Undertow)
>> * authenticator (Tomcat)
>> * login manager (Resin term 2)
>> * login (Resin term 3)
>>
>> 7 out of 14 voted:
>>
>> Arjan Tijms - authentication mechanism
>> Adam: auth-method (because in web.xml + servlet)
>> Darran Lofthouse - authentication mechanism
>> Pedro Igor - authentication mechanism
>> Rudy De Busscher - authentication mechanism (slightly favored) /
>> authentication method
>> Werner Keil - authentication mechanism /
>> authentication method (slightly favored)
>> Ivar Grimstad - auth-method / authentication method
>>
>>
>> Organized per term:
>>
>> authentication mechanism - 5
>> authentication method - 3
>> auth-method - 2
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Arjan Tijms
>>
>>
>>
>