Re: [xacml] Changing subject-category from XACML Attribute to XMLattribute

[Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Seth Proctor wrote:

>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:50:18PM -0500, Anne Anderson wrote:
> > Please respond with your opinions on this.
>
> I raised this issue with several of you a while back. I think that having the
> category as an XML attribute makes some sense, and since it's a required
> element (albeit with a default value) it wouldn't really impact anything. On
> the other hand, if you want to treat the subject-category as just another
> attribute that you can look for and manipulate like all attribute values, then
> it makes sense to leave it as it is. Ultimately, I feel that it makes things
> a little clearer to have it as an XML attribute, but I'm easy on this one.

Yeah, we've been back and forth on this a couple of times. From what I got
out of the phone call I think we are leaning back to making it an XML
attribute for the Subject element of the request context.

Cheers,
-Polar

> seth
>
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