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Subject: Editorial Update to Section 3.3 of conformance
On the December 21 conference call, Thomas W. and Scott C. suggested that Section 3.3 of the conformance document might require some additional text clarifying intent. I had taken an action to start a thread on the subject. Section 3.3 includes the following text (lines 192-196): --------------------------- All relevant operational modes MUST implement the following SAML-defined identifiers: 1. All Attribute Name Format Identifiiers as defined in Section 8.2 of [SAMLCore]. 2. All Name Identifier Format Identifiers as defined in Section 8.3 of [SAMLCore]. 3. All Consent Identifiers as defined in Section 8.4 of [SAMLCore]. ----------------------------- The intent here is the following: it should be possible to configure a conformant SAML 2.0 implementation to generate and consume assertions containing the identifiers described in these sections. One question that might then be asked is whether consuming/generating such assertions implies implementation of additional processing rules (e.g., integration with a Windows NT identity store). A close reading of Sections 8.2-8.4, reveals that with the exception of 8.3.7 and 8.3.8, no normative processing rules are prescribed. In other words, leaving aside these sections, all of the remaining material is concerned with constraints on the element (attribute) values or the intent of the message issuer. I would propose we add the following sentences following line 196 to Section 3.3: Sections 8.3.7 and 8.3.8 prescribe normative processing rules for persistent and transient identifiers requiring implementation by conformant implementations. Sections 8.2-8.3 do not specify normative processing rules for any of the remaining identifiers.
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