> Yes, then there's an errata. Line 541 in profiles. Basically
> says issuer (for an AuthnRequest Response) MAY be omitted. I
> believe this is the only spot in profiles.
>
> Jahan, can you add an errata item to change line 541 to
>
> "the <Issuer> element MUST be present and MUST contain the
> unique identifieir of the"
>
> The main reason is that Issuer should should be a MUST in the
> SSO Response protocol.
Ah, ok. So I think the point there was to allow people to assume Issuer
based on the Assertion, thus your point about encryption...
A compromise might be to just say, if you encrypt the assertion, it's
required, otherwise it MAY be omitted.
-- Scott