RE: [security-services] Validation of simple attribute value fail s?

Yes, this is the reason I could not make any changes.

Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.

781 245 6996 x227


> -----Original Message-----
> From: RL 'Bob' Morgan [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:10 AM
> To: Eve L. Maler
> Cc: 
> Subject: RE: [security-services] Validation of simple attribute value
> fails?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Eve L. Maler wrote:
> 
> > At 12:10 AM 12/19/01 -0400, Chris McLaren wrote:
> > >
> > >My inclination would be to remove the AttributeValue type 
> and set the
> > >type of AttributeValue directly to the anyType. This would removes
> > >nothing functionally from the AttributeValue and allows us 
> to do the
> > >sort of direct xsi:type-ing that I mention in my earlier posts.
> >
> > I agree with this.  In the earlier thread explaining the 
> "trick", I had
> > missed the fact that we don't, yet, define AttributeValue 
> as anyType.
> 
> There seemed to be agreement among those who cared about it that this
> change should be made, but as far as I can tell core-22 still defines
> AttributeValueType as a sequence of any.  So, let this be noted as a
> proposed and apparently agreed-on but not yet implemented 
> change to the
> doc, and hence an open issue.
> 
>  - RL "Bob"
> 
> 
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