RE: Requesting an Assertion by ID

["Mishra, Prateek" <pmishra@netegrity.com>]

Hal,

Your comment is not correct. Please take a look at
element <Request> in draft-sstc-schema-protocol-15. 
The RequestType allows a query to specify either 
an assertionID (lookup) or a Query element. The former
corresponds to looking up an assertion by its ID.

- prateek

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hal.lockhart@entegrity.com]
>>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:41 AM
>>To: 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
>>Subject: Requesting an Assertion by ID
>>
>>
>>In current core the only way to specify an AssertionD in a 
>>request is by
>>including a Subject element with an AssertionSpecifier (which 
>>can include an
>>Assertion or an AssertionID.) The semantics of doing this are 
>>not specified,
>>but elsewhere, the use of Assertion Specifier in Subject is 
>>taken to refer
>>to the Subject of the referenced or included Assertion. 
>>
>>In other words, the request would be interpreted as asking 
>>for Assertions
>>containing the same Subject, rather than asking for an 
>>Assertion with a
>>specific AssertionID.
>>
>>I think we need to be able to ask for assertions by ID, so 
>>this needs to be
>>added or the non-intuitive semantics of SubjectSpecifier in Requests
>>documented.
>>
>>Hal
>>
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