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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2014-10-29 17:52, Peter Schober wrote:
> * Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 AT osu.edu> [2014-10-29 17:42]:
>> One reason RequestedAttribute still matters is that without a way to use
>> that approach, you can't signal required vs. optional, and there are
>> federations increasingly looking at per-attribute consent, rightly or
>> wrongly.
> 
> Interesting. So meta-attribute names are really about reviving the
> isRequired="true|false" flag (and thereby reviving RequestedAttributes
> itself), which we've given up on -- mostly because of the inability to
> express multiple acceptable alternatives?

The problem is that we haven't given up on it :-) and we probably won't
because some of our lawyers tell us that attribute requirements have to
be minimal and hence specific.

        Cheers Leif