Re: [xacml] XACML Obligations and SAML Conditions (?)

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Re: [xacml] XACML Obligations and SAML Conditions (?)
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Subject: Re: [xacml] XACML Obligations and SAML Conditions (?)




From: Polar Humenn <>
To: Frank Siebenlist <>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:36:57 -0400 (EDT)






On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Frank Siebenlist wrote:

> In my mind, the issuer of an assertion vouches for the validity of the 
> statement, and that the conditions clause should only apply to the validity of 
> the statement as a whole.
> 
> In the case of an xacml response, the obligations seems part of that response, 
> and together constitute the statement. It is this complete statement that will 
> be used by the pep after the validation of the assertion.
> 
> To pull the obligations out and carry them in the saml's conditions doesn't seem 
> to fit that model well.

Ah, I got your point. I agree with you. The response carrying within an
XACML response should be the captured as whole statement.

Were we really considering pulling obligations out into the Conditions?

Cheers,
-Polar

> 
> -Frank.
> 
> 
> Polar Humenn wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Frank Siebenlist wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>My feel is that the saml condition is on the assertion level, while the xacml 
> >>obligation is on the decision response level.
> >>
> >>Does it make sense to have the decision response including the obligations live 
> >>outside of the assertion?
> >>If the answer is yes, then that may have answered the question...
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean.
> > 
> > An obligation is part of the decision response. If we use the SAML
> > Response to wrap this XACML response, By virtue of being a SAML Response,
> > does that mean the XACML Response must be an Assertion? So, do you mean by
> > turning the response into a SAML Assertion that we should strip the
> > obligations out and put them some where else?
> > 
> > -Polar
> > 
> > 
> >>-Frank.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
>