<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">So I am working on an existing Shibboleth Identity Provider, and I realized that none of the </span></font><span class="bold highlight search-highlight" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">attribute</span><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> OID names match up with the conventional names. Now I am working with a Service Provider, and am hoping this won't become a problem (especially since there are other service providers that use this IdP). </span></font></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have some limited experience on the Service Provider side. Is this a problem for a service provider? I know service providers can map different <span class="bold highlight search-highlight" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">attributes</span> to different local names, but do they have this level of control for each identity provider that they are working with. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For an example: </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Institution A names their 'last name' <span class="bold highlight search-highlight" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">attribute</span> urn:oid:1.2.3.4 </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Institution B names their 'last name' <span class="bold highlight search-highlight" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">attribute</span> urn:oid:1.3.2.4 </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Can a service provider say to use urn:oid.1.2.3.4 for Institution A and urn:oid.1.3.2.4 for Institution B?</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">If not, I am worried that I will have to change all the attributes to use the standard OID definitions in the IdP, and then need to contact all other service providers to account for this change.</span></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 253);">-John</span></font></div></div></body></html>