RE: comments: draft-mace-shibboleth-arch-protocols-03

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

> Yes, but if the required attributes are in metadata, the SP doesn't
> have to spell it out every time it makes a SOAP request.  Granted the
> <md:AttributeConsumerDescriptor> is the least useful of all
> descriptors (since it has no Location) but there must be some residual
> value of including this element in metadata.

Doesn't work. The AttributeConsumingServiceIndex was never part of the query
message, only the AuthnRequest. It was never fully designed to address the
query use case, so putting it back doesn't help anything.

It's a new proposal, not putting things back.

-- Scott