<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4617">In the OASIS docs, I see this:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4587"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4586">The optional <Subject> element specifies the <b>principal </b>that is the subject of all of the (zero or more)</div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4588">statements in the assertion.</div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589">In the glossary it is defined as this:</div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class="">A </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class="">system entity</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class=""> whose identity can be authenticated. [X.811]</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class=""><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4637">What exactly is meant by system entity? Does the principal in an assertion have any association with the user specific data being passed as attributes?</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class=""><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -230.399993896484px;" class="">Thanks.</span></div><div></div></div></body></html>