From: Werner Keil <werner.keil_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:29:34 +0200

In fact e.g. Apache normally runs votes for 72h, maybe a week in most
cases;-)

Regards,
Werner

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:22 PM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> We're again a few weeks later, so let's now really close the vote. As a
> reminder for the future; it's probably better to establish how long the
> vote will be open from the beginning. Letting the vote be opened
> indefinitely, waiting until everyone has voted is perhaps in hindsight not
> the best idea ;)
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> But...
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> We've established two working terms:
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> 1. Identity Store
> 2. Authentication Mechanism
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> If nobody objects I'll provisionally close issue 1 (
> https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVAEE_SECURITY_SPEC-1), to show we've made
> some progress.
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> If nobody objects either I'll go rename some terms in the existing issues
> and perhaps code examples in the Git repo to comply with these terms.
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> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
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> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:39 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>
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>> Hi,
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>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Alex Kosowski <alex.kosowski_at_oracle.com
>> > wrote:
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>>> My vote is for "Authentication Mechanism".
>>>
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>> Okay, the race is on ;)
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>> Terms so far:
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>> * auth-method (Servlet)
>> * authentication method (Resin term 1)
>> * authentication mechanism (Undertow)
>> * authenticator (Tomcat)
>> * login manager (Resin term 2)
>> * login (Resin term 3)
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>> 9 out of 14 voted:
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>> 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
>>
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>> Organized per term:
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>> authentication mechanism - 5
>> authentication method - 4
>> auth-method - 2
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Arjan Tijms
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>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
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>>> On 5/20/15 11:13 AM, arjan tijms wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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>>> 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.
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ajay Reddy
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>>>> [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
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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
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>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:19 PM, arjan tijms <*arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com*
>>>> <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
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>>>> 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:
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>>>> * 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:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
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