[Mailman-Developers] Login / User Identification Issues in MM3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 18, 2012, at 05:53 PM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

>However, and this is the reason that I object to the bypassing of the service
>level description, we also need to assure that each of these implementations
>respect the requirement that ALL inter-service interactions be representable
>strictly in terms of service-level interfaces. If you define only the
>implementation interface, then you have no standard upon which to judge
>adherence to any standard that does not REQUIRE ALL implementations to
>exactly duplicate all aspects of that particular implementation.
>
>Specifically, one interface may provide multiple implementations which
>accomplish the same system service. (Many ways to skin the cat) Alternate
>implementations are required to provide just one of them.

Things are getting a bit too abstract for me.  Why don't you take a crack at
this service level description for the user manager so we can have something
concrete to further the discussion?  You can post it here or in the wiki.

Cheers,
-Barry
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