Issue 30: Need a mechanism to identify token assertions

This is now logged as issue 30.

Marc Goodner
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Microsoft Corporation
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Protocol:  ws-sp
ws-securitypolicy-1.2-spec-ed-01-r03-diff.pdf

Artifact:  spec

Type: design

Title: Need a mechanism to identify token assertions

Description: 

An implementation that uses Security Policy Language has to know how
to populate the required tokens, e.g. UsernameToken or X509
tokens. Because a policy file usually contains several token
assertions there should be a mechanism avaliable to identify a token
assertion.

For example if a policy requires two UsernameToken in a supporting
token the application that creates the message needs a way to link the
different UsernameToken assertions to the user data records that
contains
username, password, etc. To do so the application shall be able to
identify the UsernameToken and use this identifier as a link to the
user data record. 

Simliar mechanisms are required to locate the correct X509 certificate
in a keystore, for example. 

Related issues:
none

Proposed Resolution:

Add an Id or name attribute or to token assertions.  Any other ideas
how to identify token in a Poliy file and associated them with real
user/alias data?

Werner Dittmann
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