RE: [security-services] ISSUE: Format attribute for Issuer also

["Philpott, Robert" <rphilpott@rsasecurity.com>]

> >
> > So I suggest (as an ISSUE) that the schema for Issuer be modified to
> > permit the inclusion of the "Format" attribute for it too
> > (sorry my schema
> > skills are limited, so I can't suggest the mod).
> 
> I disagree. As it stands, the <Issuer> element refers to a pre-defined
> relationship between the asserting party and the relying party. The only
> reasonable thing to do with this field is for the relying party to look it
> up in a table - there should be no need to parse it in any way.
> 
>  - irving -
> 

I might find it useful and I suppose it could be made optional.  If I have
trust agreements with various issuers, each of them may have their own way
of specifying their issuer name.  If I know the format the issuer name is
using, maybe it would make a difference to me in how/where to look up
information about the issuer (in a cert store, a database, LDAP, etc.).


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