On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 13:03, Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:54:42PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am 23.04.2020 um 19:00 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 05:22:01PM +0100, Stephen Coady wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Development work has begun on the API which will give applications access
> > > to the new AAA solution. As part of our effort to migrate to this new AAA
> > > solution we need to identify applications which consume the old FAS API in
> > > some way.
> >
> > "AAA"?
> >
> > I find it good to go with the Economist (a newspaper) style guide
> > which invites writers to define every term before use.
> >
> > Rich.
>
> Triple A is a well known term.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(computer_security)
>
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa96/configuration/general/asa-96-general-config/aaa-local.html
>
> Unless I didn't get you joking.
That may be true, but whenever I see it mentioned I have no idea what it
means. For example, here in the US we have the AAA - American Automobile
Association (http://aaa.com) so as a name for a new project it's really
overloaded in my brain.
Why not paint the shed FASv2 :)
The project name is NOT AAA. It is Noggin. The current FAS is actually Version 2. There was a FAS3 project for about 10 years that got put aside over and over again due to other priorities. Since the original FAS as a sort of anti-kerberos/anti-ldap and this is actually a bunch of covers to kerberos/ldap it felt insulting to call this FAS4. So a completely different name was decided on.
That said, I agree we shouldn't use three letter acronym's without definitions.. the problem is that the terms Authentication, Authorization and Accounting for AAA have been in use at various level since I think the 1990's in security circles and if you are working that all the time, you just short cut it. [The original use I heard in the early 1990s' of AAA was a joke on the fact that it was as ubiquitous as AAA in road services and you probably ended up in AA if you worked too much on it. ]
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
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