RE: [security-services] Re-spun text for Identity Federation Definition

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Philpott, Robert <>
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2004-11-11T14:35:51+00:00
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RE: [security-services] Re-spun text for Identity Federation Definition
> 
> To support this, we ought to replace the last sentence in the
definition
> of
> "attribute" with this..
> 
>     Attributes are often represented as pairs of "attribute name"
>     and "attribute value", eg  foo='bar', or count=1, etc. These are
>     often referred to as "attribute value pairs". Note that
>     /Identifiers/ are essentially "distinguished attributes".
>     See also Identifier and /XML attribute/.
> 
[RSP] One minor note is that attributes can be more than name/*VALUE*
pairs.  They can be name/*VALUES* pairings... i.e. multi-valued
attributes.  Don't know if this is important enough to work into the
definition, but I thought I'd mention it.