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On 10/25/2011 08:56 PM, Fitch, Scott C wrote:
> Is it necessary to require levels of assurance in the Basic Policy 
> requirements? I definitely think it's appropriate for Advanced Policies. But 
> I wonder whether including levels of assurance in Basic Policies will impede 
> adoption.
> 
> Also, the fact that there are multiple LOA frameworks out there makes it 
> difficult to meet the requirement to NOT require a priori bilateral 
> agreements between the sender and recipient for Basic Policies. If the sender 
> and recipient use different LOA scales, then some type of prior agreement 
> must be in place to map the two scales. I don't think plasma wants to get 
> into the business of creating a standard LOA mapping for interoperability.
> 

Supporting multiple LOA frameworks is partly a technical issue and
partly a policy issue. The technical issue is that we need a way to
communicate LOA per transaction.

In SAML WebSSO there are technical controls (AuthenticationContext)
for communicating LOA [1]

[1]
http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml-assurance-profile.html

        Cheers Leif
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