Re: [security-services] Proposed Enhancement for Dynamic Attribute Queries

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John Bradley <>
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2012-03-28T02:58:45+00:00
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Re: [security-services] Proposed Enhancement for Dynamic Attribute Queries
+1
On 2012-03-26, at 3:52 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> On 3/26/12 9:15 AM, "Rainer Hoerbe" <> wrote:
> 
>> That would apply to both approaches, a new <AuthnAttributeRequest>
>> message or attribute negoitation in the <AuthnRequest>. I understand that
>> you challenge the use case for dynamic attribute requests at all?
> 
> I've been known to call it "unrealistic" for the majority of deployments,
> but there are certanly edge cases where you can imagine it might work. It
> certainly won't be necessary most of the time, which is why it wasn't
> presented as a use case to begin with.
> 
> But to your comment, I strongly agree. Anything like this belongs in the
> Extensions element, not as a new message type. That would be an interop
> mess, and require new endpoints in metadata and new profiles all over the
> place. Other than that caveat, it's fine.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
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