<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Well... I have an opinion on that but I will just shut up here :)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As they say, it is what it is...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thank you all for your feedback. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Mike</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Schober <peter.schober@univie.ac.at><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> users@shibboleth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 6, 2012 7:28 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Handling a multi-value attribute question<br> </font> </div> <br>
* Mike Flynn <<a ymailto="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com" href="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com">shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com</a>> [2012-12-06 16:20]:<br>> But, I am curious - Why is givenName a multi-value attribute? We<br>> have nickname... Was there a specific scenario that created a need<br>> for multiple values for these?<br><br>According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4519#section-2.12 it came<br>from ITU-T Recommendation X.520.<br>Bear in mind that X.500 was about an interconnected global directory<br>service ("/the/ directory"; which never happend) and /search/ was an<br>important aspect of that: You'd want to be able to search for Joe<br>as well as Joseph, so the data structures would need to accomodate for<br>storing and searching multiple values.<br>-peter<br>--<br>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net"
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