RE: [saml-dev] possible inconsistency in metadata spec

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

Ian Young wrote on 2009-06-08:
> Section 2.3 "Root Elements" restricts the root elements in a metadata
> document to either EntityDescriptor or EntitiesDescriptor.
> 
> However, Appendix A "Registration of MIME media type application/
> samlmetadata+xml" appears to permit, in addition,
> AffiliationDescriptor as a root element.
> 
> I think the latter seems like a mistake, unless I'm just
> misunderstanding something.

Yes, it's a mistake. Fixing it would take an errata to the MIME
registration, so I don't know exactly how that will proceed.

-- Scott