Re: [security-services-comment] Inconsistency in saml-metadata-rpi/v1.0/cs01/saml-metadata-rpi-v1.0-cs01 ?

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

On 12/4/12 4:34 AM, "Thomas Lenggenhager" <lenggenhager@switch.ch> wrote:

>I think I spotted an inconsistency in the saml-metadata-rpispec in 2.3.2
>Element <mdrpi:Publication>:
>
>http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-metadata-rpi/v1.0/cs
>01/saml-metadata-rpi-
>v1.0-cs01.html
>
>
>There it reads first:
>publisher [Required]
>The publisher value of the <mdrpi:PublicationInfo> found on the root
>element of the document containing the republished
><md:EntitiesDescriptor> or <md:EntityDescriptor> elements.
>
>then in the element specification below
>    <attribute name="publisherID" type="string" use="required" />
>
>The example in 2.4 then uses again twice publisher and not publisherID.
>
>publicationInfo in 2.2 uses only publisher.
>
>What would be correct in 2.3.2?

The schema file itself takes precedence, and it would appear that the only
error is the name of the attribute in the schema snippet under 2.3.2. All
the other references seem to be to "publisher" and that's what's in the
approved schema, so it's "publisher".

I will file the issue in Jira.

-- Scott