[OGSA-AUTHZ] Your comments on Func Components

[David Chadwick]

Hi Richard

thanks for your comments. I am making an update that takes your comments 
into account.

i) title change accepted

ii) the difference between IDP and AA is an interesting one which Tom 
also raised. I think we need more discussion about this in the whole 
group to agree upon this issue

iii) I have added a definition of attribute "Attribute is a property of 
an entity". Nice and simple, and all encompassing :-)

iv) I have clarified credential to authorisation credential. An AC and a 
signed SAML assertion are both authorisation credentials.

v)I have removed the capabilities text.

vi) deleted "mode of"

vii) I have put the defn in alphabetical order

viii) added "when making a decision" to clarify how unacceptable 
credentials are ignored.

ix) users present authorisation credentials, not attributes, since the 
latter cannot be trusted. The CVS turns the former into the latter.

x) minor editorials all accepted.

thanks

David

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