how would we suggest improving the user experience at this SP

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/5/14, 4:45 AM, "Dave Perry" <Dave.Perry at hull-college.ac.uk> wrote:

>We only send the actual staff/student usernames as unconverted eppn to
>internally hosted SPs - external SPs get the transientId (the computed
>one) + the eduPersonScopedAffiliation (Staff or Student, which is managed
>by IDM).

I think you mean persistent ID, a transient is not used by applications.

That's fine as a goal, but many applications simply do not function well
with opaque, long, non-familiar identifiers.

>So I'm taking the view that association by email address is not
>consistent enough.

If the choice is the application not working at all, or some breakage due
to name changes, it's just the way it is.

-- Scott