NameIdentifier properties

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Nov 17 16:24:05 EST 2015


On 11/17/15, 3:44 PM, "users on behalf of Clayton" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of upnyhgb8v6 at snkmail.com> wrote:



>There is this really useful list of propertiesat the top of many of the wiki pages.  Ie:
>
>        https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPPersistentNameIdentifier
>
>Property       Value
>longevity     persistent
>
> transparency  opaque
>
> targeted      yes
>
> revokable     yes
>
> reassignable  no
>
>
>Where can I find the formal definitions of the properties like "targeted"?

Targeted in that specific case refers to the fact that it's a pairwise identifier. That means that in general every different service that receives such an identifier is getting a different value for the same user.

-- Scott



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