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Subject: Re: [security-services] Groups - sstc-saml-x509-authn-attrib-profile-draft-10-diff.pdf uploaded
On 8/15/06, Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu> wrote: > > But w.r.t. stability of drafts, my main concern is that AFAIK > > this profile was originally submitted to support a particular > > use case defined by certain US government agencies. > > Right, but I haven't heard from those constituencies lately. Is the draft > still needed? Whose RFP needs were being addressed and do they still have > them? > > > As interoperability with these already existing deployments is > > likely to be a major driver of adoption of this profile, we > > should take care not to break interop with the original > > profile if at all possible. > > As originally conceived, there could be no existing deployments since it was > being written while SAML 2.0 was being written. Have there been deployments > since? If so, it's worth asking how well that went. These questions are paramount. If backwards compatibility with previous drafts is a goal, many of my previous comments are irrelevant and many of Ari's concerns are non-issues. We need to answer this question before spinning our wheels further. Tom
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