Attribute naming help

[Eric Goodman]

>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've had a few SPs that will accept different OIDs for attributes that conceptually have the same meaning to the application. They pass all of these attribute values raw to the app and let the application pick which attribute to use to populate the necessary internal value (e.g., if not null, use urn:oid.1.2.3.4, else use urn:oid.1.3.2.4). At the SP level it's not conditional processing, it's just accepting a lot OIDs.

I agree with Kevin that if I were the SP I'd try to refuse to do that, but if they are willing to do it (and if there's no conflict across the OID's you're trying to use), then it can work.

--- Eric