[OGSA-AUTHZ] Comments on "Use of SAML for OGSA AUthorization"
Von Welch
vwelch at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sat Jan 15 12:37:43 CST 2005
Dane,
Responses inline below. Latest version of the document is now at the
first URL below. I believe this document is now ready to proceed along
with the attribute document at the second URL.
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=119&category_id=450&document_content_id=3292
https://forge.gridforum.org/docman2/ViewProperties.php?group_id=119&category_id=451&document_content_id=2818
Von
Dane Skow writes (17:20 January 14, 2005):
>
> I agree with your responses and close all my comments save the
> following items :
>
> On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Von Welch wrote:
>
> >> *** Editorial comments ***
> >>
> >> The "ogsa-saml" XML namespace isn't at the URI listed. Is this a
> >> chicken and the egg problem or a problem with the website ?
> >> (there are others as well inside the doc)
> >
> > URI are not URLs. They do not necessarily resolve. In this case the
> > URI is purely a unique identifier (like an OID).
>
> I'm confused: doesn't the namespace document need to be publicly
> available ? If it's not available by resolving the URI, where should it
> be ?
It's not a namespace document. It's a namespace identifier. All this
URI does is uniquely scope the names that follow, it happens to look
like a URL, but that is where the resemblance ends. Think of a URI as
equivalent to an OID, but it leverages DNS namespaces such that there
doesn't have to be a top-level registry.
> Anyway, my main concern was whether we'd uncovered a problem
> with the GGF webpages missing some documents that should be there now.
>
> >> Section 7, paragraph 1, sentence 2, should read "... used to meet OGSA
> >> requirements ..." (transposition)
> >
> > I'm staring at the sentence and it seems to read what you already
> > suggest.
>
> In the copy I'm looking at, it says "OSGA" not "OGSA".
Fixed.
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