I think this section (and the one describing the Environment Attributes) are not so much describing conformance as the functional behavior that must be supported. By "MUST support", this section really means that the implementation must be able to supply a value for the subject-category whether or not it was explicitly stated in the original Request from the PEP. I can live without the change, however :-) Anne On 7 November, Tim Moses writes: RE: [xacml] CR summary from Anne > From: Tim Moses <
tim.moses@entrust.com> > To:
xacml@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [xacml] CR summary from Anne > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:19:53 -0500 > > Anne - I didn't incorporate this one, because Section 10 is where > conformance requirements are stated. Are you OK with that rationale? All > the best. Tim. > > 7.9.4 Subject Attributes > > "A conformant implementation MUST support the subject category > attribute, which is an attribute with the criteria of an > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > AttributeId of ... > >