As you can see from the rolling titles on the front page of the ISM Community just getting agreement on simple terminology is not as simple as it could be. Thanks to some great contributions from ebreece, jason and dave we are starting to roll.
I have added a definition block to the Glossary working document that looks like this and when we are happy with the first set of definitions I will add them.
Title
Authentication
Definition
The process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it has declared itself to be.
Examples
User KLO is authenticated as she was able to provide her secret pass code.
I checked the dollar bill to authenticate that is was indeed real.
References
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Notes
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ISM Community Discussion URL
http://www.ism-community.org/forums/t/542.aspx
As always if anyone would like to volunteer to own updating the glossary and can commit to doing so in a regular basis please drop myself or Paul Zedeck an email.