SAML Authority and Requester Conformance question

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In terms of Table 4, 
SAML Authority and Requester Matrix. What do following mean:

 

1. A  SAML 
<x> Authority responding to an <y> Query.  E.g., an Attribute 
Authority responding to an Authn or Authz Decision Query?  It doesn't seem 
to make sense as authorities should response to the respective queries. So the 
OPTIONAL items under the authorities should be N/A.

 

2. The SAML 
Requester column. Does this mean the capability of "issuing" the respective 
query/request/URI from  the first column? So implicitly any browser 
satisfies the last box (i.e., ability to issue a SAML URI Binding 
request).

 

Thanks, 
Tom.

 

Thomas Wisniewski
Software Architect 
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891-0524 
Cell: (201) 248-3668 

  
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