Re: [security-services] Last items for Final Documents

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

Hal Lockhart wrote:

> Jeff and Joe: should we worry about the usecases document?


You didn't ask me :-), but I don't think it needs to be updated to be 
brought into the stylistic fold.  It's a historical document at this 
point.  If we ever update the content, we can format it differently.


> Issues DS-14-14, DS-14-15 and DS-14-16 I believe have not been 
> addressed. It is my understanding that there is a general agreement to 
> defer them, but I cannot find any discussion in the minutes or mailing 
> list. Can you confirm this?


DS-14-14 is "ErrMsg in Multiple Languages".  I believe we definitely 
deferred this to a future version.  However, note that I listed a 
potential auxiliary issue at the bottom, regarding the fact that we 
allow multiple occurrences of StatusMessage (see lines 1321-1322 in 
core-31).  I no longer believe that this is really all that 
underspecified, but it does probably limit our options for allowing 
error messages in multiple languages in future; it would suggest that 
we'd need to use Option 2 (MessageText elements inside StatusMessage, 
with xml:lang on them) in future.  However, it would be a 
backwards-incompatible change to start allowing MessageText in SAML V.next.

I'll leave Rob to comment on DS-14-15 ("Version Synchonization").

DS-14-16 is "Version Positive".  I wouldn't sweat this one; we could 
defer it indefinitely, or simply close it, and probably not lose anything.


	Eve


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