[pjerem]

The issue is that they have the same prefix AND that unfortunately this prefix is used to abbreviate both words.

What does the "auth" module ?

[diego_sandoval]

We shouldn't use that abbreviation, then.

[lsaferite]

Given that _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_ are in common technical use, I would expect something handling _Auth_ to work on both _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_.

[ninininino]

me, reading thread on hacker news, where a different team that used to build the auth service just transferred ownership of the service to my team, which builds the authz service....