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On 1/18/11 5:08 PM, Josh Howlett wrote:
>>     >> Control question for Sam and Scott: is it possible (and
>>     >> reasonably easy) to do SP-centric attribute aggregation for
>>     >> abfab, by which I mean having the SP issue additional attribute
>>     >> queries to IdPs within the AAA-centric trust model proposed by
>>     >> Sam and Josh?
>>
>>     Josh> Yes, possible and easy (assuming, obviously, we can assume
>>     Josh> that the SPs and IdP have a common identifier for the
>>     Josh> subject).
>>
>> Josh, I suspect you are right, but the details are not clear to me.
> 
> Nor me in truth; I suspect that I am about to discover it was inadvisable of 
> me to claim 'easy' :-)
> 
>> How does the SP address the request to a particular AA?
> 
> The model that I have in mind is that we specify a set of standard endpoint 
> locator names for different type of Issuer roles. These can be used, in 
> conjunction with the NAI realm of the Issuer, to construct a complete NAI.
> 
> e.g. say we specify the "saml-20-aa" name to mean a SAML 2.0 attribute 
> authority. An SP wanting to route a message to this actor to example.com 
> prefixes the realm of the intended Issuer with this, thus 
> "saml-20-aa.example.com". The AAA SAML attribute within this request message 
> contains a SAML Request message containing the identifier for the subject. 

ehrm, that means there can only be one AA per realm?

Klaas

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