NameIDFormat in SP metadata

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Grady, Michael Allen
<m-grady at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>       <NameIDFormat>
>         urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified
>       <NameIDFormat>

This entry in metadata has dubious semantics. The unspecified format
is not something the SP explicitly asks for or supports, but rather
something the IdP asserts in the absence of anything else.

Tom