Re: [security-services] Decision on further steps for Metadata documentation

[Rainer Hoerbe <rainer@hoerbe.at>]

>> As a side note: Is there a pressing reason to have the Entity Category
>> spec (draft-macedir-entity-category-00) at the IETF? For achieving a
>> consolidated picture of MD an OASIS document might be easier to manage.
> 
> Don't confuse that with the underlying spec for entity attributes (just in
> case that isn't clear), which was done here, by me, and is at CS as it has
> been for years.
> 
> -- Scott

I am aware of the different specifications but unsure about their best application to a use case when a federation has only a few standardized attribute release policy (2-3) for a couple of hundreds of SPs. Entity categories would seem an elegant solution to me.

- Rainer