RE: [security-services] Tentative preliminary draft proposed text forISSUE: AuthorityKind and RespondWith

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

At my current rate of progress I expect to be looking for final text on this
by 2:25 PM EST. I will not make any changes till then on this issue if
people want to continue discussion.

Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.
pbaker@verisign.com
781 245 6996 x227


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:40 AM
> To: 'Irving Reid'; security-services@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [security-services] Tentative preliminary draft proposed
> text for ISSUE: AuthorityKind and RespondWith
> 
> 
> > Since nobody picked up the gauntlet I threw down in 
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/200203/
> > msg00069.html,
> > I'm going to assume we have consensus for the option that 
> > makes the least changes to the spec. That is, we continue to 
> > have the subtle difference between AuthorityKind, which 
> > specifies the sorts of samlp:Query an authority will answer, 
> > and RespondWith, which specifies the kind of saml:Statement a 
> > requester wants to see.
> 
> They essentially mirror each other. Both represent the 
> "expectations" of
> the entity that populates them, and since one comes from the eventual
> responder and the other from a requester, they represent opposing
> constructs. But I guess you could just as easily align them 
> so that the
> AuthorityKind QNames represent the kind of statements that will be
> returned.
> 
> I don't think it makes too much difference, really. Either way works.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 
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