Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Will Shib 2.x support the following attribute query profiles?
> 
> - The attribute exchange profile in the current protocol spec?

Meaning Shibboleth's? By definition, since it's backward compatible.

> - The SAML Assertion Query/Request Profile [SAML2Prof]?

Yeah, but I don't know about in the SP yet. I hope not to.

> - The SAML Attribute Sharing Profile for X.509 
> Authentication-based Systems?

I doubt it, not until it's clearer what it actually means. I don't really
understand the purpose of that profile from a technical point of view (the
X.509 part doesn't belong in SAML at all).

If all it's asking for is a bunch of specific knobs to be turned, then I
think all the knobs will be there, so maybe in that sense it's "supported".

> How will a Shib 2.x IdP call out its support of one or more of these
> profiles without breaking backward compatibility with the Shib 1.3 SP?

Nothing old is changing (broken or not) and nothing new conflicts with
anything old.

-- Scott