Handling a multi-value attribute question

[Mike Flynn]

Well... I have an opinion on that but I will just shut up here :)

As they say, it is what it is...

Thank you all for your feedback. 

-Mike


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 From: Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
To: users at shibboleth.net 
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Handling a multi-value attribute question
 
* Mike Flynn <shibbolethlynda at yahoo.com> [2012-12-06 16:20]:
> But, I am curious - Why is givenName a multi-value attribute?  We
> have nickname...  Was there a specific scenario that created a need
> for multiple values for these?

According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4519#section-2.12 it came
from ITU-T Recommendation X.520.
Bear in mind that X.500 was about an interconnected global directory
service ("/the/ directory"; which never happend) and /search/ was an
important aspect of that: You'd want to be able to search for Joe
as well as Joseph, so the data structures would need to accomodate for
storing and searching multiple values.
-peter
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