name id format unspecified

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Fri Sep 26 10:31:16 EDT 2014


On 9/26/14, 10:15 AM, "Qian, Yi" <yqian at ku.edu> wrote:

>Can it be explained in little more detail or can you refer to some
>documents that the unspecified should not be used, I have lots of SPs are
>using name id format unspecified, some big name like sales force and
>sorry about my google skill, it did not return any useful information
>when I search for not using unspecified?

Using a constant that means "this value has no defined format and no
interoperability" is patently ridiculous in a standard that's supposed to
be interoperable. It doesn't scale, and it forces every relationship to be
a one-off because there is no fixed definition to follow when you
configure your system.

-- Scott



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