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Subject: Re: [security-services] Re: comments re draft-sstc-metadata-iop-02


Tom Scavo wrote:
> In fact, this
> alternate use of SAML metadata is the reason I referred to the
> Metadata Interoperability Profile as a "deployment profile" as opposed
> to some universally applicable profile.

Leaving aside whether this distinction even matters, no profile is 
universal. How many people are going to use a certificate-based profile for 
SSO any time soon? That doesn't make it a community-specific profile, just a 
relatively less adopted one.

The issue to me is whether a profile imposes constraints or assumptions that 
would make it unrealistic to adopt across a broad range of communities. My 
goal here is not to convince those communities to do so, however misguided I 
may think they are. I'm just interested in giving the TC member companies a 
better opportunity to provide products that meet the needs of a number of 
communities they aren't serving very well right now.

-- Scott


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