What is the usual identifier we use in the code for IdP and SP?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/15/14, 7:50 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>I need to add the SP and the IdP entityIDs to the SubjectC14NContext (some
>of the NameID Decoding require it).  Up to now I have been inside the
>attribute resolving or attribute filtering space and so it was usual to
>refer do this by using 'issuer' and 'recipient' as prefixes.  But in this
>context those terms do not make sense.
>
>What is the usual prefix that people use ?  RP seems deprecated and
>confusing.  Is SP and IdP (or rather sp and idp) sufficient?   I know that
>V2 tried quite hard to avoid those term because of the possibility of
>flows
>where and IdP could be acting more like an SP and vice versa, but it seems
>needless to tie oneself in knots over it.

Good question. We're not really doing that great at rationalizing this so
far. The other uses generally are using relyingPartyId and
responderEntityId, I think, which is even goofier than what we had.

I don't know that I have exactly what you need in mind, but does
requester/responder work at all?

-- Scott