Attribute value data types

Title: RSA Interop 2005 Guidelines

I believe we did all agree that attribute
data in the Attribute elements will be in the “urn:…:attrname-format:basic”
format.  We currently have defined 3 attributes to be included: MemberLevel,
EmailAddress, and CommonName.  We didn’t declare the expected
datatypes for the values of these attributes.  I am assuming all of them
will be xsi:type=”xs:string”.  That clearly makes sense for
EmailAddress and CommonName. Last year, we used “1” for the
MemberLevel, but didn’t document its type in the spec.  I believe we
ended up making it a string also.

 

So I recommend that we stick to strings
for all attribute values.  Anyone disagree?

 

I also believe we previously agreed that
we would not state that everyone has to use the same attribute values for these
attributes (as we did last year).  But one thing I think we did agree on
is that these would all be single-valued attribute values.

 

Anyone disagree?  So, for example, I
might send or expect to receive the following attributes:

 

<saml:Attribute NameFormat=”urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic”
Name=”EmailAddress”>

    <saml:AttributeValue
xsi:type=”xs:string”></saml:AttributeValue>

</saml:Attribute>

<saml:Attribute NameFormat=”urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic”
Name=”CommonName”>

    <saml:AttributeValue
xsi:type=”xs:string”>Alice Marie Smith</saml:AttributeValue>

</saml:Attribute>

<saml:Attribute NameFormat=”urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic”
Name=”MemberLevel”>

    <saml:AttributeValue
xsi:type=”xs:string”>1</saml:AttributeValue>

</saml:Attribute>

 

Sound okay?

 

If so, Bob, could you please update the
spec with the additional info?

Rob Philpott

Senior Consulting Engineer 

RSA Security Inc. 

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From: Ciochon, Robert
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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
3:17 PM

To: samldemotech

Subject: RSA Interop 2005
Guidelines

 

Hi,

Attached
is the first cut at defining the guidelines and use cases for the SAML Interop
at RSA 2005.  Please send me any feedback, questions, clarifications,
etc...

Regards,

Bob

<<RSA2005-saml-interop.doc>> 

 

Robert Ciochon 

eTrust
Development Manager 

Computer
Associates 

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Diego, California 

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