[OGSA-AUTHZ] VO SAML Attribute Profile

Tom Scavo trscavo at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 18:23:17 CST 2008


On Feb 5, 2008 6:04 PM, Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi at mat.uni.torun.pl> wrote:
>
> Tom Scavo wrote:
> > A URL need not be resolvable.  SAML, for example, recommends URLs for
> >  entityIDs (which are formally required to be URIs).
>
> I'm not really sure what SAML authors thought when writing the
> recommendation you mention:
> "It is RECOMMENDED that a system entity use a URL containing its own
> domain name to identify itself."

It is anticipated that SAML entities will eventually publish SAML
metadata at the location given by their entityID.

Tom


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