From f8d61a93109656e89cbbdeae56ca778127a0eafe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rasmus Dahlberg <rasmus@mullvad.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:36:29 +0100 Subject: moved some persisted pads to proposal directory See doc/proposals/2022-01-how-to-use-proposal-folder for details. --- .../2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology | 41 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 41 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 archive/2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology (limited to 'archive/2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology') diff --git a/archive/2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology b/archive/2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology deleted file mode 100644 index fb447d2..0000000 --- a/archive/2022-01-18-proposal-author-reader-terminology +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -Start using the terminology "author" and "reader" proposal - -Background ---- -Figure 1 in doc/design.md refers to - - a) the party producing a signed checksum as "Signer", and - b) the party verifying a signed checksum as "Verifier". - -This is fine in isolation, but less appropriate when looking at it from a -broader Sigsum perspective. For example, a "Signer" may also be a "Submitter". -It seems like we are mixing terminology for roles and concrete actors here. - -The above is also ambiguous. For example, logs and witnesses sign things; -witnesses and monitors verify things. - -Proposal ---- -1) Replace "Signer" with "Author" when we are talking about a concrete party. - -According to Wikipedia's definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author), an -'author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose -authorship determines responsibility for what was created'. This seems -appropriate for us. - -The term "author" has been used in academic litterature before us for similar -purposes: - * "In the setting of transparency logging [18] as depicted in Fig. 1, the - author generates events intended for recipients that describe data - processing by the author as it takes place" - * Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45741-3_7 - -2) Replace "Verifier" with "Reader" when we are talking about a concrete party. - -According to Wikipedia's definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading), -"[r]eading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, -etc., especially by sight or touch". Although the latter is not a perfect -description for us, the first part is quite close and we could argue that we are -in the "etc" category. - -The main idea here is that it should feel intuitive that an author has readers. -- cgit v1.2.3