I think the original wording - 'relying party' is more appropriate than 'third party' because a third-party does not actually tell me that the party has is a required entity in this transaction.
Thanks, Haripriya S. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/06 9:42 am >>> On the topic of three parties.... I think this covers the case of authoritative sources of claims... and the possibility of proxy services... "An identity information exchange should involve just three principal parties: the user, their agent, and a third party. The user's agent is where they authenticate themselves and a repository where they store their identity information and the third party is a relying party requesting identity information or an authoritative source providing identity information. Non- principal parties may participate in an information exchange by providing facilitating services, such as proxying or caching." John _______________________________________________ dix mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dix _______________________________________________ dix mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dix
