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Is it required to explicitly state that a JSON array might be empty? #39

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alejandro-perez opened this issue Jan 11, 2019 · 1 comment

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of entities that is further up in the trust chain. The array may
be an empty list. The JSON array can be used to simplify the

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rohe commented Jan 14, 2019

What's missing is the interpretation of the array being empty compared to not being empty.
In my view we should have a binary interpretation of what's in the array:

If it is empty, it means that the issuer of the entity statement has no idea which trust anchors can be found if you follow that authority_hint.
If the the array is not empty then the list of entity IDs should be exhaustive. It MUST contain all the trust anchors you can find following that authority_hint.

If it can be a subset, then it's close to useless.

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