Re: [dix] draft-merrells-dix-02.txt

[John Merrells <merrells at sxip.com>]

On 4-Jun-06, at 8:43 PM, Jeff Hodges wrote:

> Specifically, rather than appropriately reusing the SAML  
> Authentication Request Protocol and the SAML Assertion Query and  
> Request Protocol, draft-merrells-dix-02 invents its own Fetch  
> protocols and messages (which are analogous to the former SAML  
> abstract protocols), only cursorily basing them upon the SAML  
> RequestAbstractType.
>
> Since SAML presently doesn't have a notion of a "store" protocol,  
> it is reasonable to invent such, though I believe one could design  
> it such that it intersects more fully with SAML approaches.

Our first crack at the fetch request message was exactly as you  
suggest, but then we realized that the Store request would have to be  
different... so we ended up switching the fetch to the same scheme to  
make them more orthogonal.

> These protocols do not reuse the notion of, and elements for,  
> "Subject"s -- rather, inventing their own top-level elements for  
> naming of entities (eg "SPName").

Where would you expect 'SPName' to appear?

John



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