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Subject: RE: Requesting an Assertion by ID


Oops, Prateek is right. Please disregard my previous comment.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mishra, Prateek [mailto:pmishra@netegrity.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: 'Hal Lockhart'; 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: RE: Requesting an Assertion by ID
> 
> 
> Hal,
> 
> Your comment is not correct. Please take a look at
> element <Request> in draft-sstc-schema-protocol-15. 
> The RequestType allows a query to specify either 
> an assertionID (lookup) or a Query element. The former
> corresponds to looking up an assertion by its ID.
> 
> - prateek
> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hal.lockhart@entegrity.com]
> >>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:41 AM
> >>To: 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> >>Subject: Requesting an Assertion by ID
> >>
> >>
> >>In current core the only way to specify an AssertionD in a 
> >>request is by
> >>including a Subject element with an AssertionSpecifier (which 
> >>can include an
> >>Assertion or an AssertionID.) The semantics of doing this are 
> >>not specified,
> >>but elsewhere, the use of Assertion Specifier in Subject is 
> >>taken to refer
> >>to the Subject of the referenced or included Assertion. 
> >>
> >>In other words, the request would be interpreted as asking 
> >>for Assertions
> >>containing the same Subject, rather than asking for an 
> >>Assertion with a
> >>specific AssertionID.
> >>
> >>I think we need to be able to ask for assertions by ID, so 
> >>this needs to be
> >>added or the non-intuitive semantics of SubjectSpecifier in Requests
> >>documented.
> >>
> >>Hal
> >>
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