entityID format

[Mark K. Miller]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Rhys Smith wrote:

> On 7 Oct 2016, at 07:30, Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm on-boarding a new SP named "e-Builder".  They aren't members of 
>> InCommon, so they sent me their metadata.xml file directly.  It begins 
>> with:
>>
>> <md:EntityDescriptor ID="_mKch.03nGrlMcKptFQIJa8c6dg"
>>  cacheDuration="PT1440M" entityID="sso.e-builder.net"
>>  xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">
>>
>> Is that an allowed entityID format?
>
> Nope.

In my experience, though, it won't cause your IdP any problem at all.  Of 
course, my experience may only be referencing the v2 IdP, I'm not sure 
I've tried one of those with the v3 IdP.

>> My understanding is that a URI needs to begin with a scheme.  Should I 
>> hassle this vendor about it?
>
> Yep.

Ditto!  Absolutely!!!

> HTH,
> Rhys.

Max