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Change "WebAuthn Relying Party" to just "Relying Party"
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Added text saying don't mistake this for other standards' Relying Party. I think WebAuthn is now sufficiently different than OAuth to make this change.
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jcjones committed Jun 30, 2016
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Editor: Michael B. Jones, Microsoft, mbj@microsoft.com
Editor: Rolf Lindemann, Nok Nok Labs, rolf@noknok.com
group: webauthn
Text Macro: RP WebAuthn Relying Party
Text Macro: RPS WebAuthn Relying Parties
Text Macro: RP Relying Party
Text Macro: RPS Relying Parties
Text Macro: INFORMATIVE <em>This section is not normative.</em>
Text Macro: WAC WebAuthn Client
Ignored Vars: op, alg, type, algorithm
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<a>authenticator</a>) work in concert to create a <a>scoped credential</a> and associate it with the user's <a>[RP]</a>
account. Note that this includes employing <a>user verification</a>.

: <dfn>[RP]</dfn>
:: The entity whose web application utilizes the <a>Web Authentication API</a> to register and authenticate users. See
<a>Registration</a> and <a>Authentication</a>, respectively.

Note: While the term [RP] is used in other contexts (e.g., X.509 and OAuth), an entity acting as an [RP] in one context is not necessarily an [RP] in others.

: <dfn>Relying Party Identifier</dfn>
: <dfn>RP ID</dfn>
:: A Relying Party Identifier is derived from a <a>[RP]</a>'s web origin's hostname by computing the hostname's <a>eTLD+1</a>.

: <dfn>Scoped Credential</dfn>
:: Generically, a credential is data one entity presents to another in order to authenticate the former's identity [[RFC4949]].
A WebAuthn <em><a>scoped credential</a></em> is a <code>{ identifier, type }</code> pair identifying authentication
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: <dfn>[WAC]</dfn>
:: See <a>Conforming User Agent</a>.

: <dfn>[RP]</dfn>
:: The entity whose web application utilizes the <a>Web Authentication API</a> to register and authenticate users. See
<a>Registration</a> and <a>Authentication</a>, respectively.




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