valid entityid? urn:federation:apptio

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jim Fox <fox at washington.edu> wrote:
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> We got a request for our IdP to work with this entityid: "urn:federation:apptio"
> It seems to be something related to microsoft AD.

At one point, Microsoft submitted metadata to InCommon with a similar
URN be we couldn't accept that.

> Is there such a namespace as urn:federation?

Not registered with IANA, no, not the last time I looked.

> What's the harm in
> accepting it as is?  Just possible conflict in the future?

FWIW, such an entityID would not be accepted by InCommon. See:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/OQVOAg

Hope this helps,

Tom