[WG-FI] Grouping SP and applications

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Wed Aug 31 16:59:46 BST 2011


On 8/31/11 11:43 AM, "Rainer Hoerbe" <rainer at hoerbe.at> wrote:
>
>Question: Are there any other pros and cons? Any suggested or practiced
>compromises and solutions?

If the goal is solely attribute differentiation, and particularly if user
consent is involved, then metadata offers the additional option of using
different AttributeConsumingService elements for different applications.
And as you're no doubt aware, those same products won't support that
either.

Every commercial product I know of is designed around an organizational
gateway model. They simply don't work for anything else. That much at
least is just design choice. The problems they have with supporting even
that design are worthy of continued criticism, but this particular
limitation is simply a conscious choice they made, so asking it to be
fixed is essentially saying "implement a totally different design".

-- Scott



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