Attribute encoding - meaning of 'name' with URL

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/1/14, 5:51 AM, "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' :-)

I know, but my point originally is that you shouldn't have had to guess or
go hunting. It would be like somebody telling you to put an attribute into
your LDAP directory and not telling you what to call it. Somehow that's
viewed as acceptable practice by commercial services today.

At this point I think the cloud means "incompetence operationalized".

-- Scott