RE: [security-services] proposed SAML artifact definition

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

> SAML artifact
> 
>    A small referential data object referring to another SAML data object, 
> typically a SAML protocol message, held by a system entity participating
> in an exchange of SAML protocol messages. The SAML Artifact format 
> is defined in the HTTP Artifact binding in [SAMLBind].

One might argue we should have just changed the name of the thing. ;-)

Anyway, FWIW, within SAML 2.0, it *always* refers to a SAML protocol
message, so one might also argue we should just say so, as opposed to
"another SAML data object, typically a..."

-- Scott