Re: [security-services] Re-spun text for Identity Federation Definition

[Jeff Hodges <Jeff.Hodges@Sun.COM>]

Philpott, Robert wrote:
 >> To support this, we ought to replace the last sentence in the
 >> definition of "attribute" with this..
 >>
 >>    Attributes are often represented as pairs of "attribute name"
 >>    and "attribute value", eg  foo='bar', or count=1, etc. These are
 >>    often referred to as "attribute value pairs". Note that
 >>    /Identifiers/ are essentially "distinguished attributes".
 >>    See also Identifier and /XML attribute/.
 >>
 >
 > [RSP] One minor note is that attributes can be more than name/*VALUE*
 > pairs.  They can be name/*VALUES* pairings... i.e. multi-valued
 > attributes.

Doh!

 > Don't know if this is important enough to work into the
 > definition, but I thought I'd mention it.

how 'bout..

     Attributes are often represented as pairs of "attribute name"
     and "attribute value(s)", eg  "foo" has the value 'bar',
     "count" has the value 1, "gizmo" has the values "frob" and "2",
     etc. Often, these are referred to as "attribute value pairs".
     Note that /Identifiers/ are essentially "distinguished attributes".
     See also Identifier and /XML attribute/.



JeffH