Attribute naming help

[Kevin Foote]

On Mar 4, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Powers, John George <powers at rowan.edu> wrote:

> Can a service provider say to use urn:oid.1.2.3.4 for Institution A and urn:oid.1.3.2.4 for Institution B?

I don’t know perhaps.. I believe you are able to run multiple mappings regardless.  However, you’d probably have a tough time getting an SP to have a bunch of odd ball entries in their attribute-map just for you.

> If not, I am worried that I will have to change all the attributes to use the standard OID definitions in the IdP, and then need to contact all other service providers to account for this change.

Does your institution hold access to that urn space? 
If not I think you need to look at your problem a bit differently. 

Should you continue propegating inconsistancies from your IdP? 
Or should you correct the mistake and begin using the standards in place to facilitate proper use of the exchange. 
The second option should make your life much easier in the future. 

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thanks
 kevin.foote