entityID questions

[Peter Schober]

* Lohr, Donald <lohrda at jmu.edu> [2020-05-27 00:45]:
> I do not even know how to answer their questions as to why our production
> Shibboleth IdP has a urn: vs a https: style entityID value.  I have a whole
> bunch of other questions running in my mind I do not even know how to ask.

An entityID is a name (of formal type "anyURI", so the name is
formulated as a URI, of which URNs are one example).
It is the name of your IDP, period.
There's nothing else to it, technially.

If this turns out to break something their end (e.g. when they're
trying to pull metadata from the entityID's value, which will fail
with URNs) they have identified a bug in their system.

-peter