SAML 2.0 Work Items - Trust, delegation & intermediaries related work items - caching intermediaries

["Krishna Sankar" <ksankar@cisco.com>]

 One more thought :

	The work item "Persistent caching (mirroring ?) of assertions at
multiple sites" could also be handled by a trusted caching intermediary.
Thoughts ?

-k.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:34 PM
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> Forgot to add:
> 
> 	The "Use of intermediaries" could also be bundled in the
> trust-delegation work item. Intermediary is an extension of 
> trust in some
> sense. But it is  possible that we would need couple more elements to
> support a true intermediary function. I don't think we would need an
> additional protocol or a message type. Just resolve the 
> intermediary thru
> the trust mechanisms and then treat the assertion as a regular one.
> 
> -k.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:26 PM
> > To: security-services@lists.oasis-open.org
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	I think the work items "Hierarchical delegation of 
> > privileges among
> > federated attribute authorities" can be part of the item 
> > "standardized trust
> > between SAML-enabled servers". One of the standardized trust 
> > could be a
> > delegation mechanism. Also delegation need not be specific to 
> > federated
> > authorities. This also ties to the "Delegation use cases" item.
> > 
> > -k.
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