FriendlyName question

[David Bantz]

A vendor’s service is able to consume our IdP’s SAML assertion with the following exception:

commenting on the snippet

<saml2:Attribute FriendlyName="mail" Name="urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3” ...

the vendor asks

> Can you update the FriendlyName to “Email”?  Everything else seems fine.

Since I’m already releasing that attribute to other services, I would need to encode a slightly different attribute to honor that request.

I always see the FriendlyName “mail” used, for example at
http://www.incommon.org/federation/attributesummary.html
http://oid-info.com/get/0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3

Is it formally correct to encode and assert this attribute with FriendlyName “Email”?

Do other IdP operators typically yield to such requests?

David Bantz
UA IAIM
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