Changing domain name

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/30/13 10:36 AM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>* Tom Scavo <trscavo at gmail.com> [2013-01-30 16:27]:
>> If you count the effect on users (that rely on cookies for discovery),
>> the effect of a change to the IdP entityID is probably on par with the
>> SP. We're approaching near zero tolerance for changing any entityID.
>> Assurance is another area that is adversely affected by such a change.
>
>Assuming the institution will still own/control the old domain I wouldn't
>change the entityID and also keep the old scope around in metadata
>(provided InCommon allows you to keep urn:mace:incommon:muohio.edu, no
>idea what the rules are for that),

(To be clear, I wouldn't want to change it either, but if one is giving up
control of a domain, they may not have a choice.)

But you raise a good point, scope is a much bigger deal. You'd end up
breaking every application storing usernames. That's like a mass name
change.

-- Scott