NameIDFormat in SP metadata

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/21/12 7:39 AM, "Tom Scavo" <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:

>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.

I'd have to look at the code, but yes, my guess is that isn't treated like
a real format.

-- Scott