various nameid formats

[Peter Schober]

* Ramaiah, Vanna G. <ramaiah at musc.edu> [2017-03-21 18:04]:
> What are the various nameid formats? If a SP requires employee Id as Nameid, can I use this format?
> <NameIDFormat>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.3</NameIDFormat>

No, not literally (you can't make up your own values in urn:oasis or
anyone else's namespace), but
  <NameIDFormat>urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.3</NameIDFormat>
would be OK-ish. Not literally either, because that OID seems to be
owned by Netscape for Netscape LDAP attributes:
http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.html

If you wanted to use employeeNumber from RFC 2798 then
<NameIDFormat>2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.3</NameIDFormat>
would be what you'd use.
-peter