Re: [security-services] New Issue: Multi-Valued Attributes

[Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@baltimore.ie>]

Did I miss the justification for re-inventing another xml flavor
of the ASN.1 Attribute rather than re-using someone else's (e.g. 
DSML)? Seems like we're re-visiting a lot that others must have
considered.

Stephen.

Scott Cantor wrote:
> 
> > Out of the three choices, I agree that the last one is the
> > most attractive. The only thing that strikes me as odd is
> > that this allows for different values of the same attribute
> > to have different syntaxes.  Is that a useful level of complexity?
> 
> I noticed that myself, but I concluded that since it's up to the
> attribute's "definer/owner" to design its syntax, it's a complexity that
> can be avoided (if desired) by simply not doing it.
> 
> There's no way for a SAML application that consumes attributes to assume
> anything about the syntax of attributes anyway.
> 
> Another way to look at it is in Java terms, where collections can
> contain any kind of Object.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription
> manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>

-- 
____________________________________________________________
Stephen Farrell         				   
Baltimore Technologies,   tel: (direct line) +353 1 881 6716
39 Parkgate Street,                     fax: +353 1 881 7000
Dublin 8.                mailto:stephen.farrell@baltimore.ie
Ireland                             http://www.baltimore.com