Question about entityID

[Ken Weiss]

I am trying to register my service provider with InCommon. I've
encountered an administrative problem, and it leads me to a question about
entityIDs.

The problem is that I created an entityID called
dmp2-development.cdlib.org. This is NOT a host name. There is not, and
never will be, a server that responds to that name. There will never be an
entry in any DNS system mapping that name to an IP address.

However, Internet2 won't register our metadata until the administrative
contact for the .cdlib.org domain approves it. This is a problem because
the email address on our registration is out of date, and appears to now
route to /dev/null. It doesn't bounce, but it doesn't seem to land in
anyone's inbox, either. I know that's not a good thing, and we're fixing
it.

In the meantime, is there any reason I couldn't make my entityID
dmp2-development, or dmp2-development-CDL, or
kens-terrific-shibboleth-enabled-application? The entityID is simply a
unique identifier that is used as a primary key to retrieve my SP's
metadata from an IDP. It has no other purpose, and could even be an opaque
unique identifier with no semantic value whatsoever, like
4356.5341.3566.5657, right?

--Ken

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