RE: [security-services] Groups - draft-sstc-nameid-05.pdf uploade d

[Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

> I didn't think to look back at earlier drafts before posting 
> my message earlier today, but did so subsequently.  -02, 
> e.g., makes the statement "Means shall be specified enabling 
> the authentication authority to obtain explicit confirmation 
> by the principal before a federation is established." The 
> intent was that a means to obtain consent must be available, 
> not to mandate that the authentication authority (acting 
> according to its policy) must invoke that means on every 
> federation instance. 

Subtle, but true. Question...does ID-FF in your mind address that
requirement? I'm not sure I'd claim that it has actually specified such a
means.

-- Scott