RE: [security-services] proposed change to POST profile: send Response instead of Assertion

[Irving Reid <Irving.Reid@baltimore.com>]

> From: RL 'Bob' Morgan [mailto:rlmorgan@washington.edu]
> Subject: [security-services] proposed change to POST profile: send
> Response instead of Assertion
> 
> (i) The proposed Response is not issued in response to a 
> Request.  This
> doesn't seem like much of an argument to me.  If the 
> structure is useful,
> let's use it; I think there are lots of existing protocols where
> "unsolicited responses" exist for this same sort of reason.

One specific nit here: the Response has a mandatory element InResponseTo
(core25, line 1059) that MUST contain the RequestID. This would need to be
tweaked slightly to support unsolicited responses.

 - irving -


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