>     >> Control question for Sam and Scott: is it possible (and
>     >> reasonably easy) to do SP-centric attribute aggregation for
>     >> abfab, by which I mean having the SP issue additional attribute
>     >> queries to IdPs within the AAA-centric trust model proposed by
>     >> Sam and Josh?
> 
>     Josh> Yes, possible and easy (assuming, obviously, we can assume
>     Josh> that the SPs and IdP have a common identifier for the
>     Josh> subject).
> 
> Josh, I suspect you are right, but the details are not clear to me.

Nor me in truth; I suspect that I am about to discover it was inadvisable of me 
to claim 'easy' :-)

> How does the SP address the request to a particular AA?

The model that I have in mind is that we specify a set of standard endpoint 
locator names for different type of Issuer roles. These can be used, in 
conjunction with the NAI realm of the Issuer, to construct a complete NAI.

e.g. say we specify the "saml-20-aa" name to mean a SAML 2.0 attribute 
authority. An SP wanting to route a message to this actor to example.com 
prefixes the realm of the intended Issuer with this, thus 
"saml-20-aa.example.com". The AAA SAML attribute within this request message 
contains a SAML Request message containing the identifier for the subject. 

Josh.

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