Attribute encoding - meaning of 'name' with URL

[Rhys Smith]

On 1 Aug 2014, at 10:51, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think that I should point out that we do try and follow best practice,
> and in this instance spent a fair amount of time trying to find an OID
> for PPID. Only when we found none did we start to look at using a URL,
> and that was when we started questioning what it was that the URL was
> used for and/or represented. I don't think we would ever actually make
> up a 'name' attribute such as 'fred' :-)

Then you’re one up on many commercial service providers! :-)

Rhys.
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Dr Rhys Smith
Identity, Access, and Middleware Specialist
Cardiff University & Janet, the UK's research and education network

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