Well the IGF (which we are in favor of, obviously) solves part of the problem, but at the moment it only covers Subject Attributes. This is an area we are actively pursuing inside and outside the TC.
Hal
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> From: sampo@symlabs.com [mailto:sampo@symlabs.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:09 PM
> To: Anil Tappetla (atappetl)
> Cc: sampo@symlabs.com; xacml@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xacml] Attribute validation
>
> Anil Tappetla (atappetl) wrote:
> > As a related strand - how does the PEP determine what attributes it must
> > pass in a request to the PDP ? For apparently, the applicability of
> > policies may vary with what attributes are present in the request.
>
> The Liberty Alliance Identity Governance Framework (IGF) provides
> perfect solution for this. Each party, here PDP, declares formally
> what attributes it needs and other parties (PEP) can be configured
> to match in more or less automatic way.
>
> Cheers,
> --Sampo
>
> > Regards,
> > Anil
> >
> >