Persistent Assertion/Subject/NameID from LDAP Attribute

[Henry B. Hotz]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Tom Scavo wrote:

> If you want to have the
> latter as a NameID, use:
> 
> urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
> 
> which is (obviously) pre-V2.0 but the format of choice for e-mail addresses.

If that's what's wanted by a specific SP, shouldn't the <NameIDFormat> metadata make it unnecessary to to put a preference in the RelyingParty?  

Just asking.  Everything's working now, but I need to clean things up a bit.
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