Re: Credential DELETE Operation

Gareth,

I do have some sympathy with this approach, but its somewhat late
in the day (for this rev of the I-D) to be making such a bigish 
change given that we do have a working protocol (I don't think 
you're saying it doesn't work as is) and don't have text for 
the suggested change.

So I'd be against making this change right now.

During the last-call of the protocol draft (next rev hopefully today!) 
you can of course suggest this change *with specific text* that implements 
it (and I'd suggest waiting to base your text on the -05 I-D).

At that stage we can take it on board or not, depending on the usual
things...

Is that ok?

Stephen.

"Richards, Gareth" wrote:
> 
> In the current ID, credentials are deleted using the UploadRequest.
> 
> According to section 2.2.1:
> 
> a) If the UploadRequest contains no Credential and the UploadRequest
> contains a "Delete="yes"" attribute, then the all the credentials associated
> with that account are deleted.
> 
> b) If the new credential from the UploadRequest contains no PayLoad field
> and the new credential has a "Delete="yes"" attribute, then the (one and
> only) "matching" credential is deleted.
> 
> One minor point is that in the current schema the Payload is not an optional
> element in the CredentialType and this appears to be required to allow the
> second delete to occur.
> 
> However, it may be simpler to implement the DELETE operation described in
> Section 3.3 of the framework document with a separate DeleteRequest rather
> than overloading the UploadRequest in the way described.  One possibility
> would be for the DeleteRequest PDU to be either empty or contain an
> CredentialSelector and optional LastModified.  If it is empty then it is a
> request to delete all credential otherwise it is a request to delete a
> specific credential.
> 
> This would have a number of advantages:
> 
> 1) There would be no need to have a Delete attribute in the CredentialType.
> 
> 2) There would be no need to have an optional Payload since the only time a
> Credential can meaningfully not contain a Payload is if the Delete attribute
> is set to "yes" and it is contained in an UploadRequest.
> 
> 3) The UploadRequest PDU could be simplified by removing the Delete
> attribute and making the Credential mandatory.
> 
> 4) The conditions on the use UploadRequest given in section 2.2.1 would be
> simplified.

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