RE: [security-services] Erratum: Descriptions of QNames

[Irving Reid <Irving.Reid@baltimore.com>]

> From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com]
> 
> I'm discovering that the descriptions of the operation of 
> AuthorityKind 
> and RespondWith are a bit misleading when it comes to QNames. 
>  I'd like 
> to suggest a change that I'm happy to consider editorial, but I will 
> wait for the group's consensus on this before making the change.

...

> It would be better to say something like this (underscores 
> around new or 
> changed material):
> 
> For AuthorityKind: "For example, an attribute authority would be 
> identified by AuthorityKind="samlp:AttributeQuery", _where there is a 
> namespace declaration in the scope of this attribute that binds the 
> saml: prefix to the SAML protocol namespace_."

the samlp: prefix, but otherwise OK.

> For RespondWith: "For example, a requestor that wishes to receive 
> assertions containing only attribute statements _would_ [this was a 
> lowercase "must"] specify 
> <RespondWith>saml:AttributeStatement</RespondWith>, _where 
> the prefix is 
> bound to the SAML assertion namespace in a namespace 
> declaration that is 
> in the scope of this element_."

I think I put together the original text for these; I like the proposed
clarification.

 - irving -


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