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Subject: Re: [security-services] SAML Rev Idea: General Session Index


Fair enough.  Is this something people think would be a useful
extension?  Obviously the Shib project has seen a couple places where
it would help us out some.  Does anyone else care?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 14:04, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2@osu.edu> wrote:
> On 1/16/12 9:55 AM, "Chad La Joie" <lajoie@itumi.biz> wrote:
>>
>>So, my question is, do we want to add an optional SessionIndex to the
>><AttributeQuery> or, more generally to the SubjectQueryAbstractType or
>>RequestAbstractType, in order to allow for, but not mandate, session
>>correlation?
>
> I think our general philosophy has been to avoid making changes to the
> content models except through the defined extension points to prevent
> opening a big debate about versioning.
>
> Put another way, this doesn't have to wait for an update if it's done as
> an extension, and then I think the question is, are there extensions that
> we want to build into the specification rather than leave them in separate
> documents, and what conformance rules should apply? Which is basically the
> question I raised on the last call.
>
> The downside is that we end up with some namespace proliferation, and I
> don't disagree that that's annoying. One option is to recast extensions we
> want to include in a new core namespace (we can't use the existing ones
> because we defined Extensions to use an ##other wildcard).
>
> -- Scott
>



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