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Re: [xacml] Draft response to SSTC on XACML Attribute definition. Forwarded message from Seth Proctor.

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    Subject: Re: [xacml] Draft response to SSTC on XACML Attribute definition. Forwarded message from Seth Proctor.


    Seth is right.  I'll modify the draft response to reflect the
    fact that our AttributeDesignator has no way of specifying
    IssueInstant at all.  Somehow I had remembered that you could
    specify an exact match, but I was wrong.
    
    -Anne
    
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    From: Seth Proctor <seth.proctor@sun.com>
    To: Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@sun.com>
    Subject: Re: [xacml] Draft response to SSTC on XACML Attribute definition
    Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:19:19 -0400
    
    
    Thanks for writing this up...it's excellent! One little nit:
    
    >    The XACML TC includes IssueInstant, but has no way of using
    >    this value in a policy other than to require an exact match.
    >    For example, there is no way in an XACML policy to say that a
    >    particular Attribute is acceptable so long as it was issued
    >    after a given dateTime.  This reduces the value of
    >    IssueInstant considerably, but this is an XACML issue and not
    >    a SAML problem.
    
    There is no way to reference this from a Designator, but of course a Selector
    or an XPath function can use this value, so it's not entirely useless. I
    could certainly write a Selector that let me compare the issueInstant to a
    dateTime, though this is unwieldy at best :)
    
    
    seth
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