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Re: dropping gss_name_to_any ?

Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com> Tue, 17 November 2009 17:17 UTC

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On 17/11/2009, at 5:46 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:21:39PM +0100, Leif Johansson wrote:
>>> I've never been comfortable with this API - it feels difficult to  
>>> specify
>>> property. I'd be in favor of dropping it.
>>
>> I'd like to confirm that we have consensus on dropping  
>> gss_name_to_any
>> (or consensus that I misunderstood that thread)
>
> I'm for dropping it, but Luke seems to think it's useful, and he did
> implement it, including a plug-in interface.  Luke?


I only really implemented it because it's in the spec. But there are  
cases where it may be useful -- but those all defeat the purpose of a  
general-purpose, mechanism-agnostic API. For example, the SAML  
provider surfaces the assertion object via this interface, but then it  
requires the caller be using the same SAML implementation.

-- Luke

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