[Zope3-dev] Initial thoughts on the Zope3 security framework

[Guido van Rossum]

> How much stress would it cause if we migrated more of the Zope
> security architecture towards standard terminology?  I believe the
> thing Zope calls a "role" is typically called a "group."  A group has
> a set of permissions associated with it.  A principal is associated
> with a set of groups, which implies the permissions of the group.

Jim & Tres called out in unison: "No, they're not the same.  We'll add
groups some day."

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)