MSO and multiple communities

[Guy Rixon]

Clive,

please see

http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices/SSO-introduction.htm

for the most-formal description of IVOA usage so far.

G.

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Clive Page wrote:

> I think this discussion is getting very confused because
>
> (1) We are all using the same words but meaning completely different
> things by them, especially: account, community, group, user,
> log-in, warrant, certificate, maybe token.  And which is a member of
> which.
>
> (2) There's a delay of 15 to 30 minutes or more on the ivoa mail server,
> so messages cross frequently, tangling replies.
>
> Please can somebody post the IVOA WG agreed meaning of the terms, if such
> exists? Only then can we start to have a rational discussion.
>
> --
> Clive Page
> Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
> University of Leicester,
> Leicester, LE1 7RH,  U.K.
>
>
>
>

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