[OGSA-AUTHZ] VO SAML Attribute Profile

Valerio Venturi valerio.venturi at cnaf.infn.it
Thu Feb 7 12:32:45 CST 2008


Hi all,

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:17 +0100, Krzysztof Benedyczak wrote:
> Tom Scavo wrote:
> > 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.
> Right, so it means it is or is going to be resolvable. But once again - 
> it isn't an important issue anymore.
> 
> Before putting changes into working draft, I'd like to hear Valerio's 
> opinion about the format change. What do you think?
No problem with that. You can go ahead with the doc.

Valerio




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