Re: [xacml] Question about Anonymous Access Subject?

[Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@Sun.com>]

On 11 October, Hal Lockhart writes: [xacml] Question about Anonymous Access Subject?
 > Is there a cannonical way to represent an anonymous access subject in the
 > Request Context? This seems to me to be an extremely common case that should
 > be described in the spec. (My preference would be to leave out the access
 > subject entirely, but I see that it is mandatory)

Yes, there is a canonical way.  The sequence of Attributes under
<Subject> is minOccurs=0, so you can have a Request Context in
which the one <Subject> element has no Attributes (such as no
subject-id).

Anne
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