RE: [saml-dev] Query on an optional(?) element in SAMLResponse

bhaskar jain wrote on 2009-09-30:
> My reading of Oasis core tells me that AuthnContextClassRef is optional,
> Is this correct?

It's optional if you send something else in its place. AuthnContext itself
isn't optional.

The schema is explicit and unambiguous (in this particular case). There's
nothing you even need to read in the spec, it's sitting right there in the
XSD.
 
-- Scott