- <p>Since Shibboleth deals both with daily technical and operational issues
- and also with contractual issues, a set of contacts should be set up to
- support the user base and to facilitate interactions with other Shibboleth
- sites and federation members. It is recommended that at least technical and
- administrative contacts be designated. Names, titles, e-mail addresses, and
- phone numbers may all be useful information to provide.</p>
+ <p>When a target receives a set of attributes, it must evaluate them in the
+ context of the Attribute Authority that is providing them, to assess their
+ "reasonableness". For example, if the value of an attribute is expected to
+ be from a small set of enumerated choices, the value should be compared
+ against that list. If a particular attribute or value is only trusted when
+ asserted by specific origins, that too should be checked.</p>
+ <p>Targets are configured to accept specific attributes that they understand
+ and care about, and are also configured with the rules to apply before
+ accepting the attributes for use by the RM or an application. Attributes and
+ values that don't meet the target's requirements are filtered out. The set
+ of configuration rules to make these decisions is called an Attribute
+ Acceptance Policy (AAP).</p>