Please review: DRAFT Reg of application/samlassertion+xml

[Graham Klyne]

Jeff,

That wording looks OK to me.

One additional point to consider, but I think it's marginal:  the case when 
the default namespace is a SAML namespace.  (In practice, I think anyone 
who knows enough about XML to use this stuff will understand that case is 
implied, but maybe it's better to be explicit.)

#g
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At 11:52 06/09/04 -0700, you wrote:
> > I'm a bit concerned that this might be read as asserting that a
> > application/samlassertion+xml object must use the specific namespace 
> prefix
> > "saml", rather than any namesp[ace prefix that maps to a SAML namespace 
> URI.
>
>
>good catch, thanks.
>
>
> > Assuming this is not being claimed, I'd suggest:
> > [[
> > Additional information:
> >
> >        Magic number(s):
> >             In general, the same as for application/xml [RFC3023]. In
> >             particular, the XML root element of the returned object will be
> >             <saml:Assertion>, where "saml" as any namespace prefix that 
> maps
> >             to a version-specific SAML assertion namespace URI, as 
> defined by
> >             the appropriate SAML "core" specification (see bibliography).
> >             In the case of SAMLv2.0, the root element of the returned 
> object
> >             may be either <saml:Assertion> or <saml:EncryptedAssertion>,
> >             where "saml" is a prefix that maps to the SAMLv2.0 assertion
> >             namespace URI:  urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion.
> > ]]
>
>
>how 'bout this build:
>
>
>         Magic number(s):
>              In general, the same as for application/xml [RFC3023]. In
>              particular, the XML root element of the returned object will be
>              <saml:Assertion>, where "saml" represents any XML namespace
>              prefix that maps to a version-specific SAML assertion XML
>              namespace URI, as defined by the appropriate version-specific
>              SAML "core" specification (see bibliography).
>
>              With SAMLv2.0 specifically, the root element of the returned
>              object may be either <saml:Assertion> or 
> <saml:EncryptedAssertion>
>,
>              where "saml" is an XML namspace prefix that maps to the SAMLv2.0
>              assertion namespace URI:  urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion.
>
>
>?
>
>thanks,
>
>JeffH

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