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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 > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > >>manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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