[Zope3-dev] RFC: Rename "principal" to "participant", my 2p ;-)

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Chris Withers wrote:
> After reading the majority of that thread, I think I feel the same way 
> as everone else:
> 
> - principal is better than participant
> 
> - user is better then principal

I disagree (and so do others it seems). Principal has been a standard
and very common term in the world of security for well over a decade and
is now also used in popular frameworks such as .NET and J2EE. 

user is definitely worse since a principal can be many things that are
not users in any sense of the word.

Wichert.

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