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    Subject: [security-services] Groups - sstc-saml-profiles-2.0-draft-17.sxwuploaded. Forwarded message from cantor.2@osu.edu.


    Colleagues,
    
    I have reviewed the XACML section of the SAML Profiles
    specification, and, as far as I can tell from my limited SAML
    knowledge, everything looks fine.  I have a few questions below.
    
    I have thanked Scott Cantor for the additional work he did to
    supply a few elements for the XACML section our our draft profile
    did not spell out.
    
    Here are the differences from what we supplied:
    
    - added a URN to identify the XACML Attribute Profile
      (each SAML profile has one, so this seems fine).
    - does NOT explicitly say that the "Name" XML attribute must be
      sufficient to distinguish the attribute from any other SAML or
      XACML attribute that has different syntax or semantics.  Just
      says "The Name XML attribute MUST adhere to the rules specified
      for that format, as defined by [SAMLCore]." (I don't see this
      stated explicitly in SAMLCore, either, so this may be an
      issue).
    - "For purposes of human readability, there may also
      be a requirement for some applications to carry an optional
      string name together with the OID URN. The optional XML
      attribute FriendlyName (defined in [SAMLCore]) MAY be used for
      this purpose, but is not translatable into the XACML attribute
      equivalent."  (seems fine - FriendlyName is defined in SAMLCore
      as an option for any Attribute)
    - Defines two <AttributeDesignator> elements to be equal iff
      their Name XML attributes are equal in a binary comparison.
      (does not say their NameFormat attributes must also be equal,
      but I think this is OK since the rules for using the XACML
      profile says the NameFormat must be ..."URI".)
    - "The syntax of the <AttributeValue> element's content MUST
      correspond to the data type expressed in the profile-specific
      DataType XML attribute appearing in the parent <Attribute>
      element. For data types corresponding to the types defined in
      section 3.3 of [XML-Schema-Part2], the xsi:type XML attribute
      SHOULD also be used." (is this OK?  this means we will have to
      translate back and forth between
      "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"; and "xsd:string",
      etc., as in example shown next).
    - Supplies an example where the profile:DataType is
      "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";, but the
      <saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xsd:string"> (is this OK?)
    
    Anne
    
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    The document sstc-saml-profiles-2.0-draft-17.sxw has been submitted by Scott Cantor (cantor.2@osu.edu) to the OASIS Security Services TC document repository.
    
    Document Description:
    Added Jeff's diagram, terminology changes and new intro text for logout, reworked LDAP/DCE/UUID profiles, added attribute examples.
    
    Download Document:  
    http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/security/download.php/7806/sstc-saml-profiles-2.0-draft-17.sxw
    
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