Change Request: In context-16f.xsd, the Issuer xml attribute of AttributeType is marked "required". I request that this be changed to "optional". Rationale: I believe we agreed that this should be optional. It was optional in 15g, 15h, 15i, and 16a, then became "required" in 16e and 16f without any group decision or discussion. The "issuer" is not known in the case of most attributes used in J2SE. We had discussed forcing the context builder to set the attribute to "PEP" or "UNKNOWN" or something like that, but we decided it was more straightforward to make the attribute optional. Accordingly, we did not allocate an identifier for "unknown issuer". [If this change request is not granted, then an identifier must be assigned for "unknown issuer". I suggest "BASE:unknown-issuer".] Current text in draft-xacml-schema-context-16f.xsd: <xs:element name="Attribute" type="xacml-context:AttributeType"/> <xs:complexType name="AttributeType"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="xacml-context:AttributeValue" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name="AttributeId" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/> <xs:attribute name="Issuer" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/> <xs:attribute name="IssueInstant" type="xs:dateTime" use="optional"/> </xs:complexType> Requested changed text: <xs:element name="Attribute" type="xacml-context:AttributeType"/> <xs:complexType name="AttributeType"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="xacml-context:AttributeValue" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name="AttributeId" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/> <xs:attribute name="Issuer" type="xs:anyURI" use="optional"/> <xs:attribute name="IssueInstant" type="xs:dateTime" use="optional"/> </xs:complexType> Anne Anderson -- Anne H. Anderson Email:
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