RFC 7643, "System for Cross-domain Identity Management: Core Schema", September 2015

Errata ID: 6011
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Shelley Baker
Date Reported: 2020-03-09

Section 8.7.1 says:

      {
        "name" : "members",
        "type" : "complex",
        "multiValued" : true,
        "description" : "A list of members of the Group.",
        "required" : false,
        "subAttributes" : [
          {
            "name" : "value",
            "type" : "string",
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "Identifier of the member of this Group.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          },
          {
            "name" : "$ref",
            "type" : "reference",
            "referenceTypes" : [
              "User",
              "Group"
            ],
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "The URI corresponding to a SCIM resource
that is a member of this Group.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          },
          {
            "name" : "type",
            "type" : "string",
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "A label indicating the type of resource,
e.g., 'User' or 'Group'.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "canonicalValues" : [
              "User",
              "Group"
            ],
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          }
        ],
        "mutability" : "readWrite",
        "returned" : "default"
      }

It should say:

      {
        "name" : "members",
        "type" : "complex",
        "multiValued" : true,
        "description" : "A list of members of the Group.",
        "required" : false,
        "subAttributes" : [
          {
            "name" : "value",
            "type" : "string",
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "Identifier of the member of this Group.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          },
          {
            "name" : "$ref",
            "type" : "reference",
            "referenceTypes" : [
              "User",
              "Group"
            ],
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "The URI corresponding to a SCIM resource
that is a member of this Group.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          },
          {
            "name" : "type",
            "type" : "string",
            "multiValued" : false,
            "description" : "A label indicating the type of resource,
e.g., 'User' or 'Group'.",
            "required" : false,
            "caseExact" : false,
            "canonicalValues" : [
              "User",
              "Group"
            ],
            "mutability" : "immutable",
            "returned" : "default",
            "uniqueness" : "none"
          },
          {
            "name": "display",
            "type": "string",
            "multiValued": false,
            "description": "A human-readable name for the group member, primarily used for display purposes.",
            "required": false,
            "caseExact": false,
            "mutability": "readOnly",
            "returned": "default",
            "uniqueness": "none"
          }
        ],
        "mutability" : "readWrite",
        "returned" : "default"
      }

Notes:

The group "members" attribute should define a "display" sub-attribute.

* Section 2.4 defines a standard multi-valued read-only attribute of "display".
* The Group Representation example in Section 8.4 also includes the "members.display" sub-attribute.
* This discussion in the SCIM mailing list [1] also indicates that this should be fixed.

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/scim/EH99Gxn-hDluihMNtWLIekuFCs8/

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