OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

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Re: [xacml] Question about Anonymous Access Subject?

  • 1.  Re: [xacml] Question about Anonymous Access Subject?

    Posted 10-11-2002 16:06
    On 11 October, Hal Lockhart writes: [xacml] Question about Anonymous Access Subject? > Is there a cannonical way to represent an anonymous access subject in the > Request Context? This seems to me to be an extremely common case that should > be described in the spec. (My preference would be to leave out the access > subject entirely, but I see that it is mandatory) Yes, there is a canonical way. The sequence of Attributes under <Subject> is minOccurs=0, so you can have a Request Context in which the one <Subject> element has no Attributes (such as no subject-id). Anne -- Anne H. Anderson Email: Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM Sun Microsystems Laboratories 1 Network Drive,UBUR02-311 Tel: 781/442-0928 Burlington, MA 01803-0902 USA Fax: 781/442-1692