RE: [saml-dev] searching for a use case

> The use case discussed in section 2 motivates the profile in 
> section 3, but for the life of me, I can not conjure up a 
> realistic use case for the profile in section 4.  Can someone 
> provide one?

My only *guess* is that they are trying to allow for protection 
of the data independent of the TLS provider (so, perhaps, if they
put a separate TLS endpoint in the network nearby the IdP, the 
data would still be protected all the way to the IdP).

Conor