Attribute definition type for eduPersonTargetedID?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/26/21, 10:04 AM, "users on behalf of Wessel, Keith" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

>    I didn't actually say they only support eptid. I said they need it, and I say need because it's what they're
> currently using as a unique identifier.

Persistent ID is the *same* identifier. This is not about identifier migration, which is hard, it's just about syntax.

> We can certainly start migrating them to a new attribute, but that's obviously not a trivial process

If the value is the same, it should be very trivial.

>    But since eptid is part of the R&S bundle, the impacts of this could be more far reaching than just local SPs
> that use it as a unique identifier, and simply replacing it with something else is likely to break a lot.

R&S also assumes use of the persistent NameID Format, because that's in fact what eduPersonTargetedID *is* in any recent version of the eduPerson spec.

>  I'm all for migrating to the new identifier attributes as soon as we can, but I know that's going to take some
> time, and I'd like to continue supporting it with an attribute definition that doesn't use a deprecated type. Is
> there a way?

No.

-- Scott